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Author	skrah
Recipients	cblp, dabeaz, eryksun, josh.r, martin.panter, pitrou, skrah
Date	2015-08-06.13:45:32
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Message-id	<1438868734.36.0.335408992643.issue15944@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Yuriy: cast() does not do this. What's requested is that e.g. a single float is represented as a bytes object instead of a float. Thus, you'd be able to do: m[0] = b'\x00\x00\x00\x01' This has other implications, for example, two NaNs would compare equal. Hence the suggestion memoryview(raw=True).

Yuriy: cast() does not do this.  What's requested is that e.g. a
single float is represented as a bytes object instead of a float.

Thus, you'd be able to do:

  m[0] = b'\x00\x00\x00\x01'

This has other implications, for example, two NaNs would compare
equal.  Hence the suggestion memoryview(raw=True).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015-08-06 13:45:35	skrah	set	recipients: + skrah, pitrou, dabeaz, martin.panter, cblp, eryksun, josh.r
2015-08-06 13:45:34	skrah	set	messageid: <1438868734.36.0.335408992643.issue15944@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2015-08-06 13:45:32	skrah	create