[issue26821] array module "minimum size in bytes" table is wrong for int/long

Jonathan Booth added the comment: Ugly -- if I know I'm dealing with 4-byte data, I can't just specify 'I' or 'L' because it'll be wrong on some platform? Maybe the bug is really the module's design. Seems I need to look elsewhere for other reasons (arr

[issue26821] array module "minimum size in bytes" table is wrong for int/long

New submission from Jonathan Booth: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/array.html describes the 'I' and 'i' typecodes as being minimum-size in bytes of 2. The interpreter disagrees: >>> import array >>> a = array.array('i') >>> a.