Martin Panter added the comment:
I don’t see the point of mentioning array() objects at all. It’s hard to
support array in a Python 2 implementation, as demonstrated by readinto(). And
the special support for array('b') won’t help if you pass in array('B') with
values 128–255. I see this as an implementation detail of _pyio, rather than a
need for others to follow its lead.
The array('b') code was added by r56225. I guess it is experimental code from
an early phase of the io module. Also, test_array_writes() is disabled for
_pyio in 2.7
(https://hg.python.org/cpython/diff/760a710eb6c1/Lib/test/test_io.py), and in
2.6
(http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/trunk-bytearray/Lib/test/test_io.py?r1=61775&r2=61774&pathrev=61775&view=patch).
I think it is better to avoid “such as” and be specific about what has to be
supported. Perhaps:
readinto(b): The object *b* should be a pre-allocated, writable array of bytes,
either :class:`bytearray` or :class:`memoryview`.
.. versionchanged:: 2.7
Support for :class:`memoryview`.
write(b): The object *b* should be an array of bytes, either :class:`str`,
:class:`bytearray`, or :class:`memoryview`.
.. versionchanged:: 2.7
Support for :class:`memoryview`.
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