import array from testutils import assert_raises obj = b"abcde" a = memoryview(obj) assert a.obj == obj assert a[2:3] == b"c" assert hash(obj) == hash(a) class A(array.array): ... class B(bytes): ... class C(): ... memoryview(bytearray('abcde', encoding='utf-8')) memoryview(array.array('i', [1, 2, 3])) memoryview(A('b', [0])) memoryview(B('abcde', encoding='utf-8')) assert_raises(TypeError, lambda: memoryview([1, 2, 3])) assert_raises(TypeError, lambda: memoryview((1, 2, 3))) assert_raises(TypeError, lambda: memoryview({})) assert_raises(TypeError, lambda: memoryview('string')) assert_raises(TypeError, lambda: memoryview(C()))