subclasses of list or dict and haven't implemented any pickle-related
methods (__reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __getnewargs__, __getnewargs_ex__,
or __getstate__), can no longer be pickled.  Including memoryview.

Original patch by Martin Panter.

I have compared output between pre- and post-patch runs of these tests
to make sure there's nothing missing and nothing broken, on both
Windows and Linux.  The only differences I found were actually tests
that were previously *not* run.

Patch by Claudiu Popa

  and lifetime issues of dynamically allocated Py_buffer members (#9990)
  as well as crashes (#8305, #7433). Many new features have been added
  (See whatsnew/3.3), and the documentation has been updated extensively.
  The ndarray test object from _testbuffer.c implements all aspects of
  PEP-3118, so further development towards the complete implementation
  of the PEP can proceed in a test-driven manner.

  Thanks to Nick Coghlan, Antoine Pitrou and Pauli Virtanen for review
  and many ideas.

- Issue #12834: Fix incorrect results of memoryview.tobytes() for
  non-contiguous arrays.

- Issue #5231: Introduce memoryview.cast() method that allows changing
  format and shape without making a copy of the underlying memory.

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  r88097 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-18 19:57:52 +0100 (mar., 18 janv. 2011) | 4 lines

  Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
  Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
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  r88097 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-18 19:57:52 +0100 (mar., 18 janv. 2011) | 4 lines

  Issue #10451: memoryview objects could allow to mutate a readable buffer.
  Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
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Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.

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  r86596 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-20 21:04:17 +0200 (Sat, 20 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
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  r86596 | ezio.melotti | 2010-11-20 21:04:17 +0200 (Sat, 20 Nov 2010) | 1 line

  #9424: Replace deprecated assert* methods in the Python test suite.
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underlying buffer (previously this was only done when deallocating the
memoryview), and gain support for the context management protocol.

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  r84408 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-09-01 23:14:16 +0200 (mer., 01 sept. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
  a memoryview object.
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  r84409 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-09-01 23:14:46 +0200 (mer., 01 sept. 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix a compilation warning
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  r84408 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-09-01 23:14:16 +0200 (mer., 01 sept. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #9737: Fix a crash when trying to delete a slice or an item from
  a memoryview object.
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  r84409 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-09-01 23:14:46 +0200 (mer., 01 sept. 2010) | 3 lines

  Fix a compilation warning
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a memoryview object.

frombytes() and tobytes(), respectively, to avoid confusion.  Furthermore,
array.frombytes(), array.extend() as well as the array.array()
constructor now accept bytearray objects.  Patch by Thomas Jollans.

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  r77727 | ezio.melotti | 2010-01-24 18:58:36 +0200 (Sun, 24 Jan 2010) | 1 line

  use assert[Not]IsInstance where appropriate
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  r73715 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-01 01:06:06 +0200 (Mi, 01 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  convert old fail* assertions to assert*
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Also fix len() to return number of items rather than length in bytes.

I'm sorry it was not possible for me to work on this without reindenting
a bit some stuff around. The indentation in memoryobject.c is a mess,
I'll open a separate bug for it.

(together with a bit of reindenting)

Reviewer: Antoine Pitrou #3827

Reviewed by Benjamin Peterson.