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.itemsize
4
There is also a bug with the 'L' and 'l' long typecodes, which document as
min-size of 4 bytes but are 8 bytes in the interpreter. That could be a bug in
cPython itself though, as if 'L' should be 8 bytes, that disagrees with the
type code sizing from the struct module, where it is 4 bytes, just like
integers.
I checked documentation for all versions of python and it matches -- I did not
check all python interpreters to see they match, but 2.7 and 3.5 did.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 263931
nosy: Jonathan Booth, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: array module "minimum size in bytes" table is wrong for int/long
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6
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