Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: It works only if input also supports slicing and this slicing is corresponded to bytes-slicing. It perhaps doesn't catch a non C-continuous buffers.
Actually we need something like (unlikely cast() doesn't work with empty buffers): s = memoryview(s) if not s: return b'' s = s.cast('B') ... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17839> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com