[issue27501] Create a collections.abc class that describes PEP 3118 buffer

Daniel Moisset added the comment: Thanks for the feedback. Just for the context, I opened this issue also based on this email: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/156411 Probably there are two different discussions to have here: 1) Is the "Buffer" a useful ABC to have even if t

[issue27501] Create a collections.abc class that describes PEP 3118 buffer

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I'll defer to typing gurus as to whether something like this might make sense in typing.py, but it doesn't make much sense as a collections.abc without an API exposed in pure python and without useful mixin methods. By way of comparison, consider that the

[issue27501] Create a collections.abc class that describes PEP 3118 buffer

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[issue27501] Create a collections.abc class that describes PEP 3118 buffer

New submission from Daniel Moisset: The buffer protocol is a low level C protocol, but even if it doesn't expose a specific python API, it's currently not possible to say "this object implements the buffer protocol" in Python This might be useful for some applications, including PEP-484 typing