[issue34778] Memoryview for column-major (f_contiguous) arrays from bytes impossible to achieve

[Stefan Krah]

Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> added the comment:

memoryview.cast() was originally meant to be a faster version of tobytes(), which always converts to C-contiguous.

The 'shape' keyword was added because it is odd if you can cast from ND-C to 1D-Bytes but not back.

I'm not sure if we should introduce that feature, just pointing out that the original decision to exclude non 'C' views was deliberate.

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