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authorStefan Krah <skrah@bytereef.org>2012-08-30 10:09:09 (GMT)
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Issue #15724: Add versionchanged tags to the memoryview documentation.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
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@@ -2450,6 +2450,8 @@ copying.
``v == w`` for memoryview objects.
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ Previous versions compared the raw memory disregarding the item format
+ and the logical array structure.
.. method:: tobytes()
@@ -2479,8 +2481,10 @@ copying.
>>> m.tolist()
[1.1, 2.2, 3.3]
- :meth:`tolist` is currently restricted to single character native formats
- in :mod:`struct` module syntax.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ :meth:`tolist` now supports all single character native formats in
+ :mod:`struct` module syntax as well as multi-dimensional
+ representations.
.. method:: release()
@@ -2664,6 +2668,10 @@ copying.
arbitrary format strings, but some methods (e.g. :meth:`tolist`) are
restricted to native single element formats.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ format ``'B'`` is now handled according to the struct module syntax.
+ This means that ``memoryview(b'abc')[0] == b'abc'[0] == 97``.
+
.. attribute:: itemsize
The size in bytes of each element of the memoryview::