SF feature request #992967: array.array objects should support sequences.
Made the constructor accept general iterables.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c7478d4..d294440 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -732,8 +732,8 @@
- array objects now support the copy module. Also, their resizing
scheme has been updated to match that used for list objects. This improves
the performance (speed and memory usage) of append() operations.
- Also, array.extend() now accepts any iterable argument for repeated
- appends without needing to create another temporary array.
+ Also, array.array() and array.extend() now accept any iterable argument
+ for repeated appends without needing to create another temporary array.
- cStringIO.writelines() now accepts any iterable argument and writes
the lines one at a time rather than joining them and writing once.