Merge pull request #2433 from gabrieldemarmiesse/mention_memoryviews_with_strings

Added an example of using python strings with const memoryviews.

docs/examples/userguide/memoryviews/view_string.pyx

+cdef bint is_y_in(const unsigned char[:] string_view):
+    cdef int i
+    for i in range(string_view.shape[0]):
+        if string_view[i] == b'y':
+            return True
+    return False
+
+print(is_y_in(b'hello world'))   # False
+print(is_y_in(b'hello Cython'))  # True

docs/src/userguide/memoryviews.rst

@@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ support read-only buffers as input::
     a.setflags(write=False)
     myslice = a
 
+Using a non-const memoryview with a binary Python string produces a runtime error.
+You can solve this issue with a ``const`` memoryview:
+
+.. literalinclude:: ../../examples/userguide/memoryviews/view_string.pyx
+
 Note that this does not *require* the input buffer to be read-only::
 
     a = np.linspace(0, 10, num=50)