[issue8990] array constructor and array.fromstring should accept bytearray.
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Jun 19 17:24:10 CEST 2010
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
On the principle the patch looks good. In practice, it lacks a call to `PyBuffer_Release(&buffer)` in the various error cases (before returning NULL). It also lacks some tests in Lib/test/test_array.py.
> In 3.x unicode type was renamed to str and str to bytes, so fromunicode
> should become fromstring (or maybe fromstr to avoid confusion) and
> fromstring should become frombytes.
This should be discussed separately, perhaps on python-dev first.
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nosy: +haypo, pitrou
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