Stefan Krah added the comment: Ok, I think the main reason for disallowing zeros in view->shape here was that casts are undefined if also the "shape" argument is given:
x = memoryview(b'') x.cast('d', shape=[1]) Now, this case *is* already caught at a later stage, since there isn't enough space for the cast. Nevertheless, the code is tricky, so I'd prefer to be conservative and catch shape arguments earlier. I left a suggestion in Rietveld. I would commit it myself, but I'm moving and my infrastructure is a mess. It would be great if one of you could take this one. I'll try to review the general case for ndim > 1 later, but that's not particularly important right now. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19014> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com