Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

Consider this:

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memoryview(b'x').cast('B', ()).tolist() 120

The return value of to list() is an int, not a list.

That's because NumPy's tolist() does the same thing:

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x = numpy.array(120, dtype='B') x array(120, dtype=uint8) x.tolist() 120

If you implement tolist() recursively like in _testbuffer.c and choose the zeroth dimension as the base case, you arrive at single elements. So at least it's not completely unnatural. Stefan Krah