The trouble with my original idea is that it is complex to implement, and inconsistent. If you wrote small amounts to your BufferedWriter, you would get a memoryview of bytes that you save for later. If there was a write of a large bytes object, we could pass a memoryview of that bytes object (or the actual bytes object). But if there was a write of a large bytearray, we could end up locking that bytearray, preventing it from being resized, and there could be problems mutating the bytearray.

Because I can’t see how to eliminate all inconsistencies, I prefer to document against saving the memoryview for later.