Python 2.7.4 Released

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See http://bugs.python.org/issue10211

Basically, Python has the "buffer" object which is a 0-copy view of some memory area (lets an object expose itself as a bytes array of sorts). It's always been plagued with a number of issues.

In Python 3, `buffer` was removed and replaced with `memoryview`, which was backported to Python 2.7. But in said Python 2.7, `buffer` and `memoryview` both exist and fill very similar need so e.g. older libraries will likely return a buffer which newer code will want to use as a memoryview. No such luck, they're not compatible.

2.7.4 fixes that so you can get a memoryview from a buffer.

In 2.7.3, you can create a buffer which is the "old" buffer interface: http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#buffer

And you can create a memoryview which is the "new" and more flexible buffer interface: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#typememoryvie...

You can get a buffer of a string:

    >>> buffer("foo")
    <read-only buffer for 0x1005a5ee0, size -1, offset 0 at 0x10054f270>

and a view of a string:

    >>> memoryview("foo")
    <memory at 0x100574d60>

but when you get this unhelpful and really stupid result:

    >>> memoryview(buffer("foo"))
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    TypeError: cannot make memory view because object does not have the buffer interface

2.7.4 fixed this so it actually works and you can get a memoryview out of an old buffer.

The word was "incredible", and I was actually not referring to 2.7 specifically, but to maintenance releases in general (3.3.1 also got hundreds of bugfixes).

You should check the changelog, they're still adding functionality by stretching the definition of 'bug fix'.. 2.x development is unlikely to freeze any time soon. I certainly have no intention of moving to 3.x, it would be the most pointless upheaval ever. I'd sooner fork 2.x and maintain it myself.

If you read his reply more carefully, you would have realised he's talking about the move to Python 3.x

There aren't any libraries I know of that work in 2.7 but not 2.7.x

see the other comments the changelog is for 2.7, the 2.7.4 update only contains bugfixes