STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:

Ah ok, now I remember the story. I cleaned up getargs.c recently. r83197 
(#8991) removes the support of discontinious buffers. I guess that most 
developers don't know what a discontinious buffer is and so they don't support 
this kind of buffer. Moreover, most PyArg_Parse*() formats don't provide 
information about the buffer (how it is stored in memory), and so the caller 
cannot handle discontinious anyway.

I think that even Python code developers don't know what a discontinious buffer 
is... I think that today there is just no program or library using Python 
discontinious buffer. And maybe the authors of the PEP forgot it too :-)

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