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To: <tim.wiederhake@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: MemoryView missing from Python 2.4 and 2.6
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:14:00 -0000
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"Wiederhake, Tim" <tim.wiederhake@intel.com> writes:

> ...
> 3) Use the "new style buffer API" and limit GDB's support to Python >=3D =
2.6.
> In this case we would have to limit the supported Python versions anyway =
so
> on the one hand there is not much reason to not throw out 2.6 as well. On=
 the
> other hand, there still seem to be some Python 2.6 users.


That makes sense.

> 4) Return a string in "gdb.BtraceInstruction.data ()". The instruction da=
ta can
> potentially contain null bytes which can cause issues for obvious reasons.

Python has no problem at all with null bytes in strings.=20=20

	paul