summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Objects/stringlib/README.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2007-10-16 06:31:30 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2007-10-16 06:31:30 (GMT)
commit60d241f135f10312f5a638846659d7e471f6cac9 (patch)
tree620abe8a5e99620cec51a3476ea96c2459956e70 /Objects/stringlib/README.txt
parent3d2fd7f923c35fe61c0f26f2ae150d73a42859b9 (diff)
downloadcpython-60d241f135f10312f5a638846659d7e471f6cac9.zip
cpython-60d241f135f10312f5a638846659d7e471f6cac9.tar.gz
cpython-60d241f135f10312f5a638846659d7e471f6cac9.tar.bz2
For PEP3137: Adds missing methods to the mutable PyBytes object (soon
to be called a buffer). Shares code with stringobject when possible. Adds unit tests with common code that should be usable to test the PEPs mutable buffer() and immutable bytes() types. http://bugs.python.org/issue1261
Diffstat (limited to 'Objects/stringlib/README.txt')
-rw-r--r--Objects/stringlib/README.txt9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Objects/stringlib/README.txt b/Objects/stringlib/README.txt
index 82a8774..aec3441 100644
--- a/Objects/stringlib/README.txt
+++ b/Objects/stringlib/README.txt
@@ -32,3 +32,12 @@ STRINGLIB_CHAR* STRINGLIB_STR(PyObject*)
returns the pointer to the character data for the given string
object (which must be of the right type)
+
+int STRINGLIB_CHECK_EXACT(PyObject *)
+
+ returns true if the object is an instance of our type, not a subclass.
+
+STRINGLIB_MUTABLE
+
+ Must be 0 or 1 to tell the cpp macros in stringlib code if the object
+ being operated on is mutable or not.