[Patches] [ python-Patches-520694 ] arraymodule.c improvements

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Patches item #520694, was opened at 2002-02-20 14:38
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Status: Open
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>Priority: 3
Submitted By: Jason Orendorff (jorend)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: arraymodule.c improvements

Initial Comment:
This patch makes brings the array module a little
more up-to-date.

There are two changes:

1. Modernize the array type, memory management,
   and so forth.  As a result, the array()
   builtin is no longer a function but a type.
   array.array is array.ArrayType.
   Also, it can now be subclassed in Python.

2. Add a new typecode 'u', for Unicode
   characters.

The patch includes changes to test/test_array.py
to test the new features.

I would like to make a further change: add an
arrayobject.h include file, and provide some
array operations there, giving them names like
PyArray_Check(), PyArray_GetItem(), and
PyArray_GET_DATA().  Is such a change likely
to find favor?



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