The amount of space in bytes that the array would use in a contiguous representation.
>>> import array >>> a = array.array('i', [1,2,3,4,5]) >>> m = memoryview(a) >>> len(m) 5 >>> m.nbytes 20 >>> y = m[::2] >>> len(y) 3 >>> y.nbytes 12 >>> len(y.tobytes()) 12
builtins/memoryview.nbytes
memoryview.nbytes