Message 239032 - Python tracker

Message239032

Author	skrah
Recipients	martin.panter, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka, skrah, vstinner, wolma
Date	2015-03-23.14:38:53
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> In a sense, the old behavior was an artefact of silently copying the memoryview to bytes. It likely wasn't intentional, but tobytes() is used to serialize weird arrays to their C-contiguous representation (following the logical structure of the array rather than the physical one). Since the gzip docs don't help much, I guess the new behavior is probably okay.

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> In a sense, the old behavior was an artefact of silently copying the memoryview to bytes.

It likely wasn't intentional, but tobytes() *is* used to serialize
weird arrays to their C-contiguous representation (following the
logical structure of the array rather than the physical one).

Since the gzip docs don't help much, I guess the new behavior is
probably okay.

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