Nick Coghlan, 06.03.2012 12:19: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Stefan Krah wrote: >> The obvious question is: Will anyone need view==NULL in the future or >> can we remove the special case? > > The public API will still need a guard (to report an error), but +1 > for otherwise eliminating the undocumented special case.
+1 for removing it internally and only checking at the API level. I think it's just a left-over from the "old times" (pre 3.0) when the buffer protocol had an explicit option to lock a buffer. Back then, the code used to call into getbuffer() with a NULL pointer in order to acquire the (IIRC write-) lock. It took me some discussion back then to get this part of the protocol removed, but it's dead for good now. Stefan _______________________________________________ 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
