Carl Banks added the comment:
I guess I'll weigh in since I was pinged.
I agree with the approach in the patch. All the memoryview does is to use the
format field verbatim from the underlying buffer, so if the format field is
inaccurate then the only thing to do is to fix the o
New submission from Carl Banks :
The issue was raised by J Peyret on the following c.l.python thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/459e5ec433e7dcab?hl=en#
Several posters reported that the following code either hangs or crashes Python
(versions 2.7, 2.6
