Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > If either refcount is larger than the expected value of 1, then the > data is copied rather than resized.
I think that's a useless precaution. The bytes object cannot "leak" since you are using PyMemoryView_FromMemory(), which doesn't know about the original object. Out of curiousity, have you done any benchmarks? ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15903> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com