[Python-ideas] Specify number of items to allocate for array.array() constructor

[Alex Gaynor]

Philip Jenvey <pjenvey at ...> writes:
> +1, Jython's had a custom function for this forever, originally from its old 
jarray module:
> jarray.zeros(length, typecode). I think its swapped order of args are due to 
jarray probably predating
> the array module.
> 
> --
> Philip Jenvey
> 


array.zeroes(typecode, length) seems like a good API to me.  It's also
consistant  with the name for the numpy method which does the same.  I'll go
ahead and file a bug for this and try to work up a patch.

Alex