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[Python-Dev] Why does _pyio.*.readinto have to work with 'b' arrays?

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Sun Jun 15 02:41:44 CEST 2014 
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014, at 15:39, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> It seems to me that a much cleaner solution would be to simply declare
> _pyio's readinto to only work with bytearrays, and to explicitly raise a
> (more helpful) TypeError if anything else is passed in.

That seems reasonable. I don't think _pyio's behavior is terribly
important compared to the C _io module.
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