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Author dabeaz
Recipients dabeaz, pitrou, skrah
Date 2012-09-14.17:08:57
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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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