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authorLarry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>2015-04-13 11:30:56 -0400
committerLarry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>2015-04-13 11:30:56 -0400
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Doc clarification / edification on the semantics of the 'w*' format unit.
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@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Unless otherwise stated, buffers are not NUL-terminated.
any conversion. Raises :exc:`TypeError` if the object is not a Unicode
object. The C variable may also be declared as :c:type:`PyObject\*`.
-``w*`` (:class:`bytearray` or read-write byte-oriented buffer) [Py_buffer]
+``w*`` (read-write :term:`bytes-like object`) [Py_buffer]
This format accepts any object which implements the read-write buffer
interface. It fills a :c:type:`Py_buffer` structure provided by the caller.
The buffer may contain embedded null bytes. The caller have to call