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authorCharles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com>2018-05-12 11:52:15 -0600
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-05-12 11:52:15 -0600
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Merge pull request #8157 from ahaldane/void_item_memview
BUG: void .item() doesn't hold reference to original array
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@@ -120,6 +120,12 @@ longer possible, and objects expecting the old API are respected. The silent suc
by removing the interception of an otherwise-normal Exception when ``axis`` was provided to an object
using the old API.
+unstructured void array's ``.item`` method now returns a bytes object
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+``.item`` now returns a ``bytes`` object instead of a buffer or byte array.
+This may affect code which assumed the return value was mutable, which is no
+longer the case.
+
C API changes
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