Message 238307 - Python tracker
memoryview is converted to bytes because len() for memoryview returns a size of first dimension (a number of items for one-dimension view), not a number of bytes.
>>> m = memoryview(array.array('I', [1, 2, 3]))
>>> len(m)
3
>>> len(m.tobytes())
12
>>> len(m.cast('B'))
12