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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2013-05-04 18:18:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2013-05-04 18:18:34 (GMT) |
| commit | 5de183a07cfce837c926a3600369babdfc1a2ef4 (patch) | |
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Elaborate on bytes-like objects.
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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 19419a3..f30138a 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -79,8 +79,12 @@ Glossary <http://www.python.org/~guido/>`_, Python's creator. bytes-like object - An object that supports the :ref:`bufferobjects`, like :class:`bytes` or - :class:`bytearray`. + An object that supports the :ref:`bufferobjects`, like :class:`bytes`, + :class:`bytearray` or :class:`memoryview`. Bytes-like objects can + be used for various operations that expect binary data, such as + compression, saving to a binary file or sending over a socket. + Some operations need the binary data to be mutable, in which case + not all bytes-like objects can apply. bytecode Python source code is compiled into bytecode, the internal representation |