Merged revisions 74881-74885,74888,74891-74895,74900,74905-74906,74931-74932,74934,74941-74942,74944,74956 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r74881 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-17 15:12:49 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines Check in first draft of maintainers.rst. ........ r74882 | eric.smith | 2009-09-17 15:22:30 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line Typo. ........ r74883 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-17 15:37:28 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line Add some more module maintainers. ........ r74884 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-17 15:39:12 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line Revert accidental changes to Objects/longobject.c ........ r74885 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-17 16:20:01 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line Add decimal maintainers ........ r74888 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-17 18:10:48 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines Maintainer additions from MAL. ........ r74891 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-17 18:18:01 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line Some more maintainers. ........ r74892 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-17 19:23:56 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines Add a couple interest areas for Nick per his request. ........ r74893 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-17 19:43:20 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines Benajmin is also compiler-knowledgeable. ........ r74894 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2009-09-17 20:59:05 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines Added myself to my areas of interest. ........ r74895 | brett.cannon | 2009-09-17 21:03:35 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line Add myself to a couple places as maintainer. ........ r74900 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-18 05:06:37 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line Add myself in interest areas. ........ r74905 | ezio.melotti | 2009-09-18 05:58:43 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line Add myself in interest areas and mark effbot as inactive in winsound ........ r74906 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-09-18 09:15:23 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 3 lines Add myself in a couple of places ........ r74931 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-18 17:25:36 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 5 lines Add some names gleaned from the "Tracker Archeology" thread on python-dev from back in February. Also consolidate the autoconf and makefiles topics into one, and add tracker and svn/hg topics. ........ r74932 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-18 17:32:16 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 2 lines Remove non-committer mistakenly added. ........ r74934 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-18 17:40:30 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 2 lines More descriptive/generic name for the svn/hg entry (version control) ........ r74941 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-18 18:45:59 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line add a new category for myself ........ r74942 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-18 18:50:55 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line add myself for symtable ........ r74944 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-19 03:39:05 -0400 (Sat, 19 Sep 2009) | 1 line I would like to maintain the token module! ........ r74956 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-19 14:40:08 -0400 (Sat, 19 Sep 2009) | 3 lines Add everyone who we know has been a release manager as a resource for the 'release management' topic. ........

.. highlightlang:: c

.. _abstract-buffer:

Buffer Protocol
===============


.. cfunction:: int PyObject_AsCharBuffer(PyObject *obj, const char **buffer, Py_ssize_t *buffer_len)

   Returns a pointer to a read-only memory location usable as character-based
   input.  The *obj* argument must support the single-segment character buffer
   interface.  On success, returns ``0``, sets *buffer* to the memory location
   and *buffer_len* to the buffer length.  Returns ``-1`` and sets a
   :exc:`TypeError` on error.


.. cfunction:: int PyObject_AsReadBuffer(PyObject *obj, const void **buffer, Py_ssize_t *buffer_len)

   Returns a pointer to a read-only memory location containing arbitrary data.
   The *obj* argument must support the single-segment readable buffer
   interface.  On success, returns ``0``, sets *buffer* to the memory location
   and *buffer_len* to the buffer length.  Returns ``-1`` and sets a
   :exc:`TypeError` on error.


.. cfunction:: int PyObject_CheckReadBuffer(PyObject *o)

   Returns ``1`` if *o* supports the single-segment readable buffer interface.
   Otherwise returns ``0``.


.. cfunction:: int PyObject_AsWriteBuffer(PyObject *obj, void **buffer, Py_ssize_t *buffer_len)

   Returns a pointer to a writable memory location.  The *obj* argument must
   support the single-segment, character buffer interface.  On success,
   returns ``0``, sets *buffer* to the memory location and *buffer_len* to the
   buffer length.  Returns ``-1`` and sets a :exc:`TypeError` on error.