On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:34 AM Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 20.07.11 23:48, Sven Rahmann пише:
> > What's missing is the possiblity to specify the final size of the
> > array (number of items), especially for large arrays.
>
>      array.array(typecode, [fillvalue]) * n


Perhaps the OP wanted the internal array size initialized, but not used.
Currently the internal array will automatically be reallocated to grow as
needed. Which could be a performance hit if you know it’s going to grow
large.

But frankly, it would be a rare case where this would be noticeable.

-CHB


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