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PEP 3118: Add canonical-doc & mention unimplemented changes.
encukou Jan 14, 2025
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Start a new discussion please
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Clarify the "decade" is after Python 3.0
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Add Post-History, remove redundant headers
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List all the unimplemeted features.
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Merge branch 'main' into pep-3118
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PEP: 3118
Title: Revising the buffer protocol
Version: $Revision$
Last-Modified: $Date$
Author: Travis Oliphant <[email protected]>, Carl Banks <[email protected]>
Status: Final
Type: Standards Track
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 28-Aug-2006
Python-Version: 3.0
Post-History:
Post-History: `09-Apr-2007 <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/X7A5IP4VFJTVCQJSMBXGAH3BVB3A5C3T>`__

.. canonical-doc:: :external+python:ref:`bufferobjects`,
:external+python:c:type:`PyBufferProcs`,
:external+python:c:type:`PyMemoryView_FromObject`.

Some changes proposed here, like :ref:`3118-struct-additions` and
``PyObject_CopyToObject``, were not implemented.
This PEP targets Python 3.0, which was released more than a decade ago.
Any proposals to add missing functionality should
be discussed as new features, not treated as finishing the implementation
of this PEP.


Abstract
========
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object that does not provide the protocol.


.. _3118-struct-additions:

Additions to the struct string-syntax
=====================================

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