Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: > PyMemoryViewObject already is a PyVarObject with its own shape, > strides and suboffsets. You are right. I was mistakenly looking at 3.2.3 sources. It looks like there are a lot of undocumented changes here. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15821> _______________________________________