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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/objbuffer.rst b/Doc/c-api/objbuffer.rst index 7d66db2..ba6e38f 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/objbuffer.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/objbuffer.rst @@ -2,8 +2,15 @@ .. _abstract-buffer: -Buffer Protocol -=============== + +Old Buffer Protocol +=================== + +This section describes the legacy buffer protocol, which has been introduced +in Python 1.6. It is still supported but deprecated in the Python 2.x series. +Python 3.0 introduces a new buffer protocol which fixes weaknesses and +shortcomings of the protocol, and has been backported to Python 2.6. +See :ref:`bufferobjects` for more information. .. cfunction:: int PyObject_AsCharBuffer(PyObject *obj, const char **buffer, Py_ssize_t *buffer_len) |