> This is quite obscure because there's no definition of the "buffer 
> protocol".

You can find it at http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3118/#id5 (assuming it is not outdated)

> the memoryview.suboffsets attribute is not documented on the "6.10 
> memoryview Type" page

I don't know what it does.

By the way, I don't really know how to do links and glossary entries. I suppose someone else knows (and enjoys) ReST formatting better than I do.