Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: As far as the question of re-exporting the underlying view or not goes, I agree having "memoryview(a)" potentially refer to different underlying memory from "a" itself (because the source object has changed since the first view was exported) is a recipe for confusion. It is also important for ensuring memoryview slicing works correctly.
>From a didactic point of view, this would also have the benefit of providing a >canonical example of managing exported Py_buffer structs in the CPython source >code. The "repeated slicing" issue is definitely a concern, though. If we declare memoryview objects officially immutable, then we can avoid that by shortcutting the chaining with a typecheck on the referenced object (i.e. call GetBuffer on the source object directly if it is a memoryview, but on the memoryview we're copying otherwise) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10181> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
