Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote: > > Careful. There are tons of code out there that use the buffer interface, > > and the "obj" field has been the way to handle the buffer release ever > > since the interface actually worked (somewhere around the release of Py3.0, > > IIRC). > > > > Personally, I never read the documentation above (which was written way > > after the design and implementation of the buffer interface). > > The documentation has been largely re-written for 3.3.
But even for 3.0 it's not obvious to me why 'obj' should refer to anything but the exporter: http://docs.python.org/release/3.0/c-api/typeobj.html "obj is the object to export ..." Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
