[issue3492] Zlib compress/decompress functions returning bytearray

[Anand B Pillai]

Anand B Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
<report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
> Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Two remarks:
> 1. Some functions in Modules/zipimport.c (get_data) will now receive
> PyBytes, but zipimporter_get_source handle them as PyByteArray. Does
> zipimport still work at all with this patch?
>
> 2. There are other places where PyString_FromString was (incorrectly
> IMO) replaced with PyByteArray_FromString:
> - Modules/_dbmmodule.c
> - Modules/mmapmodule.c
> - Modules/ossaudiodev.c
> - Modules/zipimport.c (as noted above)
> - PC/winreg.c
> - Python/marshal.c

Hmmm...but AFAIK zlib changes only affect zipimport directly. I wonder
whether these other instances have bugs reported and are being tracked
for the release.

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