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authorEric Wieser <wieser.eric@gmail.com>2023-04-22 16:32:47 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-04-22 16:32:47 (GMT)
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gh-83791: Raise TypeError for len(memoryview_0d) (#18463)
Changes the behaviour of `len` on a zero-dimensional `memoryview` to raise `TypeError`. Previously, `len` would return `1`.
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+``len()`` for 0-dimensional :class:`memoryview`` objects (such as ``memoryview(ctypes.c_uint8(42))``) now raises a :exc:`TypeError`.
+Previously this returned ``1``, which was not consistent with ``mem_0d[0]`` raising an :exc:`IndexError``.