diff --git a/Lib/test/test_buffer.py b/Lib/test/test_buffer.py
index 6bdc34d28ea..ac8e636ba40 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_buffer.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_buffer.py
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ class BufferTests(unittest.TestCase):
                     self.assertEqual(b[start:stop:step],
                                      s[start:stop:step])
 
+    def test_newbuffer_interface(self):
+        # Test that the buffer object has the new buffer interface
+        # as used by the memoryview object
+        s = "".join(chr(c) for c in list(range(255, -1, -1)))
+        b = buffer(s)
+        m = memoryview(b) # Should not raise an exception
+        self.assertEqual(m.tobytes(), s)
+
 
 def test_main():
     with test_support.check_py3k_warnings(("buffer.. not supported",
diff --git a/Objects/bufferobject.c b/Objects/bufferobject.c
index c52f0bc908e..23b97b23d95 100644
--- a/Objects/bufferobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bufferobject.c
@@ -802,6 +802,16 @@ buffer_getcharbuf(PyBufferObject *self, Py_ssize_t idx, const char **pp)
     return size;
 }
 
+static int buffer_getbuffer(PyBufferObject *self, Py_buffer *buf, int flags)
+{
+    void *ptr;
+    Py_ssize_t size;
+    if (!get_buf(self, &ptr, &size, ANY_BUFFER))
+        return -1;
+    return PyBuffer_FillInfo(buf, (PyObject*)self, ptr, size,
+                             self->b_readonly, flags);
+}
+
 static PySequenceMethods buffer_as_sequence = {
     (lenfunc)buffer_length, /*sq_length*/
     (binaryfunc)buffer_concat, /*sq_concat*/
@@ -823,6 +833,7 @@ static PyBufferProcs buffer_as_buffer = {
     (writebufferproc)buffer_getwritebuf,
     (segcountproc)buffer_getsegcount,
     (charbufferproc)buffer_getcharbuf,
+    (getbufferproc)buffer_getbuffer,
 };
 
 PyTypeObject PyBuffer_Type = {
@@ -845,7 +856,7 @@ PyTypeObject PyBuffer_Type = {
     PyObject_GenericGetAttr,                    /* tp_getattro */
     0,                                          /* tp_setattro */
     &buffer_as_buffer,                          /* tp_as_buffer */
-    Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GETCHARBUFFER, /* tp_flags */
+    Py_TPFLAGS_DEFAULT | Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GETCHARBUFFER | Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_NEWBUFFER, /* tp_flags */
     buffer_doc,                                 /* tp_doc */
     0,                                          /* tp_traverse */
     0,                                          /* tp_clear */
@@ -864,4 +875,4 @@ PyTypeObject PyBuffer_Type = {
     0,                                          /* tp_init */
     0,                                          /* tp_alloc */
     buffer_new,                                 /* tp_new */
-};
+};
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