[Python-Dev] Silent Deprecation Candidate -- buffer()

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> raymond wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>As far as I can tell, buffer() is one of the least used or known about
>>Python tools.  What do you guys think about this as a candidate for silent
>>deprecation (moving out of the primary documentation)?
> 
> 
> +1, in theory.
> 
> does anyone have any real-life use cases?  I've never been
> able to use it for anything, and cannot recall ever seeing it
> being used by anyone else...
> 
> (it sure doesn't work for the use cases I thought of when
> first learning about the API...)

-1.

I use it in real-life applications to wrap binary data.

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