[pypy-commit] cffi default: Clarify this point in the docs

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Tue Mar 17 11:02:53 CET 2015


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r1673:1e723dc022fe
Date: 2015-03-17 11:03 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/cffi/cffi/changeset/1e723dc022fe/

Log:	Clarify this point in the docs

diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
--- a/doc/source/index.rst
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -1260,7 +1260,8 @@
 buffer interface.  This is the opposite of ``ffi.buffer()``.  It gives
 a (read-write) reference to the existing data, not a copy; for this
 reason, and for PyPy compatibility, it does not work with the built-in
-types str or unicode or bytearray.  It is meant to be used on objects
+types str or unicode or bytearray (or buffers/memoryviews on them).
+It is meant to be used on objects
 containing large quantities of raw data, like ``array.array`` or numpy
 arrays.  It supports both the old buffer API (in Python 2.x) and the
 new memoryview API.  The original object is kept alive (and, in case


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