PEP 467: Minor API improvements for binary sequences - take 8

[stoneleaf (Ethan Furman)]

PEP 467 is (again) under discussion.

[CAM-Gerlach]

Just to clarify, to avoid fragmenting discussion, please direct further replies to the canonical PEP discussion thread:

PEP 467: Minor API improvements for binary sequences

PEP 467: Minor API improvements for binary sequences is ready for further discussion. The one point I’m a little unsure of is the exclusion of memoryview (because I have a project that would benefit from it). Thoughts?