20 Sep
2012
20 Sep
'12
8:58 p.m.
David Beazley
I have recently been experimenting with the memoryview() built-in and have come to believe that it really needs to expose the 'buf' attribute of the underlying Py_buffer structure as an integer (see PEP 3118). Let me explain.
That sounds quite harmless. People who use the pointer via ctypes etc. should know the implications. I've opened #15986 for this. Stefan Krah