Issue #8838, #8339: Remove codecs.charbuffer_encode() and "t#" parsing format
Remove last references to the "char buffer" of the buffer protocol from
Python3.
diff --git a/Python/getargs.c b/Python/getargs.c
index 31b9d35..2a26a8f 100644
--- a/Python/getargs.c
+++ b/Python/getargs.c
@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@
break;
}
- /* XXX WAAAAH! 's', 'y', 'z', 'u', 'Z', 'e', 'w', 't' codes all
+ /* XXX WAAAAH! 's', 'y', 'z', 'u', 'Z', 'e', 'w' codes all
need to be cleaned up! */
case 's': {/* text string */
@@ -1362,45 +1362,6 @@
break;
}
- /*TEO: This can be eliminated --- here only for backward
- compatibility */
- case 't': { /* 8-bit character buffer, read-only access */
- char **p = va_arg(*p_va, char **);
- PyBufferProcs *pb = arg->ob_type->tp_as_buffer;
- Py_ssize_t count;
- Py_buffer view;
-
- if (*format++ != '#')
- return converterr(
- "invalid use of 't' format character",
- arg, msgbuf, bufsize);
- if (pb == NULL || pb->bf_getbuffer == NULL)
- return converterr(
- "bytes or read-only character buffer",
- arg, msgbuf, bufsize);
-
- if (PyObject_GetBuffer(arg, &view, PyBUF_SIMPLE) != 0)
- return converterr("string or single-segment read-only buffer",
- arg, msgbuf, bufsize);
-
- count = view.len;
- *p = view.buf;
- if (pb->bf_releasebuffer)
- return converterr(
- "string or pinned buffer",
- arg, msgbuf, bufsize);
-
- PyBuffer_Release(&view);
-
- if (count < 0)
- return converterr("(unspecified)", arg, msgbuf, bufsize);
- {
- FETCH_SIZE;
- STORE_SIZE(count);
- }
- break;
- }
-
default:
return converterr("impossible<bad format char>", arg, msgbuf, bufsize);