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Currently memoryview does not support subclassing:
>>> class B(memoryview): pass
... 
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: type 'memoryview' is not an acceptable base type
Subclassing memoryview can be useful when
- class A supports the buffer protocol;
- class B wraps class A and should support the buffer protocol provided by class A;
- class A does not support subclassing.
In this situation,
class B(memoryview):
 def __new__(cls, a):
 return super(B, cls).__new__(cls, a)
where a is an instance of class A, would let instances of B support the buffer protocol provided by a.
Is there any particular reason why memoryview does not support subclassing?