# Ellipsis documentation

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/ellipsis-documentation/99481>\
**Category:** Documentation\
**Created:** [July 20, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/ellipsis-documentation/99481 "2025-07-20T14:08:40Z")\
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> [@Memoryview multi-dimensional slicing support](https://discuss.python.org/t/memoryview-multi-dimensional-slicing-support/52776):
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> [PEP 3118 – Revising the buffer protocol | peps.python.org](https://peps.python.org/pep-3118/) states: \_\_getitem\_\_ (will support multi-dimensional slicing) \_\_setitem\_\_ (will support multi-dimensional slicing) However: mv = memoryview(b'\x00').cast('b', (1, 1)) mv[:,:1] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NotImplementedError: multi-dimensional slicing is not implemented Has anyone else missed this? Don’t think much would change if only slicing was to be implemented. However, it might ope…

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