[Python-porting] six.buffer_types?

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 28 May 2014 21:01:17 +0300, Shai Berger <shai at platonix.com> wrote:
> Hi Python porters,
> 
> This is my first message here; usually, I work on Django. In this work, I 
> recently felt the need to have a collection of the buffer, or bytes types 
> (parallel to the existing string_types) for an isinstance check. That is,
> 
> if six.PY2:
> 	buffer_types = buffer, bytearray
> if six.PY3:
> 	buffer_types = bytes, bytearray, memoryview

Why do you not consider memoryview a buffer type in py2?

--David