[Python-Dev] marshal (was:Buffer interface in abstract.c? )

[Fredrik Lundh]

M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com> wrote:
> I meant PyUnicode_* style APIs for dealing with all the aspects
> of Unicode objects -- much like the PyString_* APIs available.

it's already there, of course.  see unicode.h
in the unicode distribution (Mark is hopefully
adding this to 1.6 in this very moment...)

> > I very much disagree. To me, fp.write() is not about writing characters
> > to a stream. I think it makes much more sense as "writing bytes to a
> > stream" and the buffer interface fits that perfectly.
> 
> This is perfectly ok, but shouldn't the behaviour of fp.write()
> mimic that of previous Python versions ? How does JPython
> write the data ?

the crucial point is how an average user expects things
to work.  the current design is quite assymmetric -- you
can easily *write* things that implement the buffer inter-
face to a stream, but how the heck do you get them
back?

(as illustrated by the marshal buglet...)

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