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@@ -10,6 +10,23 @@ What's New in Python 3.3 Alpha 1? Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #10181: New memoryview implementation fixes multiple ownership + and lifetime issues of dynamically allocated Py_buffer members (#9990) + as well as crashes (#8305, #7433). Many new features have been added + (See whatsnew/3.3), and the documentation has been updated extensively. + The ndarray test object from _testbuffer.c implements all aspects of + PEP-3118, so further development towards the complete implementation + of the PEP can proceed in a test-driven manner. + + Thanks to Nick Coghlan, Antoine Pitrou and Pauli Virtanen for review + and many ideas. + +- Issue #12834: Fix incorrect results of memoryview.tobytes() for + non-contiguous arrays. + +- Issue #5231: Introduce memoryview.cast() method that allows changing + format and shape without making a copy of the underlying memory. + - Issue #14084: Fix a file descriptor leak when importing a module with a bad encoding. |