diff -r d4e73dff92fc Lib/test/test_getargs2.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_getargs2.py	Tue Jan 18 01:30:24 2011 +0100
+++ b/Lib/test/test_getargs2.py	Tue Jan 18 19:00:06 2011 +0200
@@ -382,7 +382,8 @@
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, getargs_w_star, b'bytes')
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, getargs_w_star, b'nul:\0')
         self.assertEqual(getargs_w_star(bytearray(b'bytearray')), b'[ytearra]')
-        self.assertEqual(getargs_w_star(memoryview(b'memoryview')), b'[emoryvie]')
+        b = bytearray(b'memoryview')
+        self.assertEqual(getargs_w_star(memoryview(b)), b'[emoryvie]')
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, getargs_w_star, None)