bpo-35845: Add order={'C', 'F', 'A'} parameter to memoryview.tobytes(). (#11730)

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 8874978..d1b1b8c6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -3600,7 +3600,7 @@ copying.
          Previous versions compared the raw memory disregarding the item format
          and the logical array structure.
 
-   .. method:: tobytes()
+   .. method:: tobytes(order=None)
 
       Return the data in the buffer as a bytestring.  This is equivalent to
       calling the :class:`bytes` constructor on the memoryview. ::
@@ -3616,6 +3616,13 @@ copying.
       supports all format strings, including those that are not in
       :mod:`struct` module syntax.
 
+      .. versionadded:: 3.8
+         *Order* can be {'C', 'F', 'A'}.  When *order* is 'C' or 'F', the data
+         of the original array is converted to C or Fortran order. For contiguous
+         views, 'A' returns an exact copy of the physical memory. In particular,
+         in-memory Fortran order is preserved. For non-contiguous views, the
+         data is converted to C first. *order=None* is the same as *order='C'*.
+
    .. method:: hex()
 
       Return a string object containing two hexadecimal digits for each