Paul Sokolovsky added the comment:
@Terry J. Reedy:
Thanks for the pointer. My inital response is <sadness>, another bloating of
namespace. But I'm adjusting.
But that PEP shows the issue with all that activity: CPython stdlib got so big
and bloated, that it lives its own life and people consider it normal. So,
there're PEPs to perfectalize bytearray, without paying attention to the fact
that array.array('B') is pretty much the same thing, but apirots (cf. bitrot)
behind it.
So, following PEP467, this request should be updated to call for
array.array.zero(typecode, size) factory method. Note that it would need to
take 2 arguments to follow array.array API. Is that good or bad? IMHO, not much
worse than introducing separate factory method at all. But again, author of
PEP467 should rather consider how those proposals extend to other related types.
If you participate in the discussion of the PEP, I'd appreciate if shared there
link to this ticket - I'm not in loop of general CPython development and have
limited resources to learn/follow them. Thanks.
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