[Python-Dev] Understanding the buffer API

[Stefan Krah]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> It does place a constraint on consumers that they can't assume those
> fields will be NULL just because they didn't ask for them, but I'm
> struggling to think of any reason why a client would actually *check*
> that instead of just assuming it.

Can we continue this discussion some other time, perhaps after 3.3 is out?
I'd like to respond, but need a bit more time to think about it than I have
right now (for this issue).


Stefan Krah