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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/stdtypes.rst6
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_memoryview.py2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
-rw-r--r--Objects/memoryobject.c7
4 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index ea00a43..e8dbc2d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -2246,6 +2246,8 @@ simple bytes or complex data structures.
buffer protocol. Builtin objects that support the buffer protocol include
:class:`bytes` and :class:`bytearray`.
+ ``len(view)`` returns the total number of bytes in the memoryview, *view*.
+
A :class:`memoryview` supports slicing to expose its data. Taking a single
index will return a single byte. Full slicing will result in a subview::
@@ -2322,10 +2324,6 @@ simple bytes or complex data structures.
A tuple of integers the length of :attr:`ndim` giving the size in bytes to
access each element for each dimension of the array.
- .. attribute:: size
-
- The number of bytes in the buffer. Also available as ``len(view)``.
-
.. memoryview.suboffsets isn't documented because it only seems useful for C
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_memoryview.py b/Lib/test/test_memoryview.py
index 0f6fc55..93a3fcb 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_memoryview.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_memoryview.py
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class CommonMemoryTests:
self.assertEquals(m.itemsize, 1)
self.assertEquals(m.ndim, 1)
self.assertEquals(m.shape, (6,))
- self.assertEquals(m.size, 6)
+ self.assertEquals(len(m), 6)
self.assertEquals(m.strides, (1,))
self.assertEquals(m.suboffsets, None)
return m
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 21d269b..c2734c8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ What's New in Python 3.0 release candidate 1
Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Issue #3827: memoryview lost its size attribute in favor of using len(view).
+
- Issue #3813: could not lanch python.exe via symbolic link on cygwin.
- Issue #3705: fix crash when given a non-ascii value on the command line for
diff --git a/Objects/memoryobject.c b/Objects/memoryobject.c
index fbb1af6..32e5c44 100644
--- a/Objects/memoryobject.c
+++ b/Objects/memoryobject.c
@@ -370,12 +370,6 @@ memory_suboffsets_get(PyMemoryViewObject *self)
}
static PyObject *
-memory_size_get(PyMemoryViewObject *self)
-{
- return PyLong_FromSsize_t(self->view.len);
-}
-
-static PyObject *
memory_readonly_get(PyMemoryViewObject *self)
{
return PyBool_FromLong(self->view.readonly);
@@ -393,7 +387,6 @@ static PyGetSetDef memory_getsetlist[] ={
{"shape", (getter)memory_shape_get, NULL, NULL},
{"strides", (getter)memory_strides_get, NULL, NULL},
{"suboffsets", (getter)memory_suboffsets_get, NULL, NULL},
- {"size", (getter)memory_size_get, NULL, NULL},
{"readonly", (getter)memory_readonly_get, NULL, NULL},
{"ndim", (getter)memory_ndim_get, NULL, NULL},
{NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL},