Message 170680 - Python tracker
> Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > I don't think we want to expose a mutable bytes object to outside code, > > so IMO PyMemoryView_FromMemory() is preferrable. > > I agree, but PyMemoryView_FromMemory(PyBytes_AS_STRING(b), n, PyBUF_WRITE) > just hides the fact that a mutable bytes object is exposed. Except that the mutable bytes object is not exposed to any outside code, so that weird behaviour can't be observed.