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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2009-01-18 01:28:09 (GMT)
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bytearrays are mutable sequences
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@@ -368,12 +368,20 @@ Sequences
comma-separated list of expressions in square brackets. (Note that there are no
special cases needed to form lists of length 0 or 1.)
+ Byte Arrays
+ .. index:: bytearray
+
+ A bytearray object is a mutable array. They are created by the built-in
+ :func:`bytearray` constructor. Aside from being mutable (and hence
+ unhashable), byte arrays otherwise provide the same interface and
+ functionality as immutable bytes objects.
+
.. index:: module: array
The extension module :mod:`array` provides an additional example of a mutable
sequence type.
-Set types
+Set types../
.. index::
builtin: len
object: set type