# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
# Date 1479910649 -3600
# Node ID a7684997ef7a11555eac21949444ccb80b141a61
# Parent  b155f3ec4b378af94cea5ca4d0cab18f3f298370
Treat buffer initialisation arguments as append inputs.
Test mixing of object types in list serialisation.

diff -r b155f3ec4b37 -r a7684997ef7a lib/__builtins__/buffer.py
--- a/lib/__builtins__/buffer.py	Wed Nov 23 14:27:21 2016 +0100
+++ b/lib/__builtins__/buffer.py	Wed Nov 23 15:17:29 2016 +0100
@@ -38,15 +38,18 @@
 
         self.__data__ = _list_init(n)
 
-        # Append all arguments in string form to the buffer.
+        # Append all arguments to the buffer.
 
         if args:
             for arg in args:
-                _list_append(self, str(arg))
+                self.append(arg)
 
     def append(self, s):
 
-        "Append 's' to the buffer."
+        """
+        Append 's' to the buffer, concatenating buffers and adding other objects
+        in string form.
+        """
 
         if isinstance(s, buffer):
             _list_concat(self, s)
diff -r b155f3ec4b37 -r a7684997ef7a tests/list.py
--- a/tests/list.py	Wed Nov 23 14:27:21 2016 +0100
+++ b/tests/list.py	Wed Nov 23 15:17:29 2016 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 l = [1, 2, 3]
-l.append(4)
+l.append("four")
 print len(l)
 print l[0]
 print l[1]