[Python-Dev] str(memoryview('abc')) != 'abc' in Python 2.7

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I wouldn't assume so - memoryview is meant to eventually support more
> than just 1-D views of contiguous memory (see PEP 3118), so that
> conversion doesn't seem intuitive to me.

In the example I'm passing in a single dimension contiguous memory
chunk to memoryview(), so in that case I would expect str() of that
memory chunk to return the same value and not the repr() of the
object. buffer() already works like that.

For non-contiguous memory views, the situation is less clear.

AFAIK, non-contiguous views are mostly used to provide a non-copying
view on a subset of multi-dimensional data, e.g. access to a row
or column of a matrix, so the str() should probably return a contiguous
copy of the selected data.

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