On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:45:56 am Brian Jones wrote:
> A python list and a python array are one and the same to my
> knowledge.
Close, but not quite.
Python has an array type. It is almost identical to lists, except the
type of data it will hold is constrained to a specific type:
>>> import array
>>> a = array.array('i')
>>> a.append(42)
>>> a
array('i', [42])
>>> a.append("spam")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: an integer is required
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Steven D'Aprano
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