[issue15944] memoryviews and ctypes

[David Beazley]

David Beazley added the comment:

Just to be specific, why is something like this not possible?

>>> d = ctypes.c_double()
>>> m = memoryview(d)
>>> m[0:8] = b'abcdefgh'
>>> d.value
8.540883223036124e+194
>>>

(Doesn't have to be exactly like this, but what's wrong with overwriting bytes with bytes of a compatible size?).

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