From 36561c5de421686ace502608ae75a816242ff5b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:08:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added BufferType, the type returned by the new builtin
 buffer().  Greg Stein.

---
 Lib/types.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Lib/types.py b/Lib/types.py
index 70e624a0916..d5f92555361 100644
--- a/Lib/types.py
+++ b/Lib/types.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ except NameError:
     pass
 
 StringType = type('')
+BufferType = type(buffer(''))
 
 TupleType = type(())
 ListType = type([])