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Author	pitrou
Recipients	chris.jerdonek, docs@python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, pitrou, terry.reedy
Date	2012-11-23.20:26:14
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Message-id	<1353702374.09.0.930065244331.issue16518@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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"Buffer protocol" is the right term. "Buffer object" doesn't mean anything in Python 3 and, furthermore, it might be mixed up with the Python 2 `buffer` type. As for the error messages, they are generally very bad on this topic, so I would vote to change them :-)

"Buffer protocol" is the right term. "Buffer object" doesn't mean anything in Python 3 and, furthermore, it might be mixed up with the Python 2 `buffer` type.

As for the error messages, they are generally very bad on this topic, so I would vote to change them :-)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-11-23 20:26:14	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, terry.reedy, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, chris.jerdonek, docs@python
2012-11-23 20:26:14	pitrou	set	messageid: <1353702374.09.0.930065244331.issue16518@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2012-11-23 20:26:14	pitrou	create