Message 70767 - Python tracker

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Guido van Rossum
<report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> added the comment:
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> Definitely don't bring buffer() back in 3.0!  It needs to die.
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> If 2to3 can do this reasonably well, let's do that.
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There is already a fixer to go from buffer() to memoryview(), but I
don't know how compatible the APIs are. That might still require a
warning.