Remove the buffer API from PyUnicode as specified by PEP 3137. Also,

fix the error message of the 't' format unit, in getargs.c, so that it
asks for bytes, instead of string.

Modules/_sre.c

@@ -1674,6 +1674,15 @@ getstring(PyObject* string, Py_ssize_t* p_length, int* p_charsize)
     void* ptr;
     Py_buffer view;
 
+    /* Unicode objects do not support the buffer API. So, get the data
+       directly instead. */
+    if (PyUnicode_Check(string)) {
+        ptr = (void *)PyUnicode_AS_DATA(string);
+        *p_length = PyUnicode_GET_SIZE(string);
+        *p_charsize = sizeof(Py_UNICODE);
+        return ptr;
+    }
+
     /* get pointer to string buffer */
     view.len = -1;
     buffer = Py_Type(string)->tp_as_buffer;

Modules/posixmodule.c

@@ -2135,7 +2135,8 @@ posix_listdir(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
     FILEFINDBUF3   ep;
     APIRET rc;
 
-    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "t#:listdir", &name, &len))
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "et#:listdir", 
+                          Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding, &name, &len))
         return NULL;
     if (len >= MAX_PATH) {
 		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_ValueError, "path too long");

Objects/unicodeobject.c

@@ -8113,15 +8113,6 @@ static PyMappingMethods unicode_as_mapping = {
 };
 
 
-static int
-unicode_buffer_getbuffer(PyUnicodeObject *self, Py_buffer *view, int flags)
-{
-
-    return PyBuffer_FillInfo(view, (void *)self->str,
-                             PyUnicode_GET_DATA_SIZE(self), 1, flags);
-}
-
-
 /* Helpers for PyUnicode_Format() */
 
 static PyObject *
@@ -8815,11 +8806,6 @@ PyObject *PyUnicode_Format(PyObject *format,
     return NULL;
 }
 
-static PyBufferProcs unicode_as_buffer = {
-    (getbufferproc) unicode_buffer_getbuffer,
-    NULL,
-};
-
 static PyObject *
 unicode_subtype_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds);
 
@@ -8903,7 +8889,7 @@ PyTypeObject PyUnicode_Type = {
     (reprfunc) unicode_str,	 	/* tp_str */
     PyObject_GenericGetAttr, 		/* tp_getattro */
     0,			 		/* tp_setattro */
-    &unicode_as_buffer,			/* tp_as_buffer */
+    0, 					/* tp_as_buffer */
     Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE | 
         Py_TPFLAGS_UNICODE_SUBCLASS,	/* tp_flags */
     unicode_doc,			/* tp_doc */

Python/getargs.c

@@ -1252,7 +1252,7 @@ convertsimple(PyObject *arg, const char **p_format, va_list *p_va, int flags,
 				arg, msgbuf, bufsize);
 		if (pb == NULL || pb->bf_getbuffer == NULL)
 			return converterr(
-				"string or read-only character buffer",
+				"bytes or read-only character buffer",
 				arg, msgbuf, bufsize);
 
 		if ((*pb->bf_getbuffer)(arg, &view, PyBUF_SIMPLE) != 0)