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Memoryview of boolean ndarrays

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I would like to create a bint memoryview of a numpy.ndarray with dtype=np.bool. Example:

cimport cython
cimport numpy as np
import numpy as np

cdef np.ndarray array = np.array([True, True, False, True], dtype=np.bool)
cdef bint[:] array_view = array

Unfortunately, running this code raises the following error:

ValueError: Does not understand character buffer dtype format string ('?')

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padix-keycommented, Sep 10, 2019

I would like to request to reopen this issue, since #2676 seems not to fix memory views. At least I get still the same runtime error ValueError: Does not understand character buffer dtype format string ('?') at Cython 0.29.12

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scodercommented, May 19, 2019

Duplicate of #2675.

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