On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 20:28:26 -0500 Yury Selivanov <yselivanov...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-01-05 7:11 PM, INADA Naoki wrote: > >> bytes.frombuffer(x) is bytes(memoryview(x)) or memoryview(x).tobytes(). > >> > > There is pitfall: memoryview should be closed. > > So b = bytes.frombuffer(x) is: > > > > with memoryview(x) as m: > > b = bytes(m) > > # or b = m.tobytes() > > Thinking more about this, and after looking at my own code in asyncpg > and uvloop, I'm now in favor of adding bytes.frombuffer() with the > proposed signature: ``bytes.frombuffer(byteslike, length=-1, offset=0)``
+1 Note this matches numpy.frombuffer(): """ frombuffer(buffer, dtype=float, count=-1, offset=0) Interpret a buffer as a 1-dimensional array. """ Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
