[issue27923] PEP 467 -- Minor API improvements for binary sequences

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

Just what Ethan noted above, and the fact that Ethan should also list himself as a co-author now :)

That said, one major alternative it would be good to consider further between now and 3.7 is Serhiy's "seqtools" idea: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-July/041083.html

Something that wrapped memoryview and allowed bytes-based iteration over any buffer exported would automatically cover bytes and bytearray as well, while also permitting "structure ignoring" iteration over the raw data contained in other types.

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