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| author | Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> | 2013-12-06 20:37:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org> | 2013-12-06 20:37:07 +0100 |
| commit | cecdbf66d507ed0b23dfd86b224fd06984994ee1 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ef7f3f1577f5aa9ce0d7ce8a02a20045715d62c /doc | |
| parent | 2d5a5cb7befae0802a65ac564ab79cc6ab1df6e5 (diff) | |
| download | cffi-cecdbf66d507ed0b23dfd86b224fd06984994ee1.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst index e296a44..a5c2dd5 100644 --- a/doc/source/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/index.rst @@ -1188,8 +1188,12 @@ an array.) Moreover buffer objects now support weakrefs to them. .. versionchanged:: 0.9 - Before version 0.9, ``bytes(buf)`` was supported in Python 3 but not - Python 2. + Before version 0.9, ``bytes(buf)`` was supported in Python 3 to get + the content of the buffer, but on Python 2 it would return the repr + ``<_cffi_backend.buffer object>``. This has been fixed. But you + should avoid using ``str(buf)``: it now gives inconsistent results + between Python 2 and Python 3 (this is similar to how ``str()`` + gives inconsistent results on regular byte strings). ``ffi.typeof("C type" or cdata object)``: return an object of type |