[Biopython-dev] why buffer in utils.count_monomers?

[Michael Hoffman]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Iddo Friedberg wrote:

> when I replaced the variable "s" in line 64 in utils.py with "seq.data"
> everything worked fine. In line 62 "s" is defined as:
> s=buffer(seq.data)
>
> Does that serve a purpose? Can we do without it, (meaning I deposit the
> bugfix) or is it important?

There is a comment that says that using a buffer makes the function
work for both strings and arrays. Of course right now it works for
neither...
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Michael Hoffman <hoffman at ebi.ac.uk>
European Bioinformatics Institute