[Python-3000] readinto annotation

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Gregory P. Smith <greg <at> krypto.org> writes:
>  >
>  > yes bytearray makes more sense to me given that its hard to read into an
>  immutable bytes object ;)
>
>  It seems to me that readinto accepts any object providing a writeable buffer
>  interface. I don't know how to express that as an annotation, though.

Don't worry too much about it. The annotation is just documentation
anyway. I'd be fine with using bytearray as the annotation, and
explaining in the docstring that other mutable bytes buffers are okay
too.

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