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r68705 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-18 02:28:09 +0100 (So, 18 Jan 2009) | 1 line
bytearrays are mutable sequences
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r68706 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-18 02:28:46 +0100 (So, 18 Jan 2009) | 1 line
fix grammar
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index ea0f869..7c52694 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@
slicing notations can be used as the target of assignment and :keyword:`del`
(delete) statements.
- There is currently a single intrinsic mutable sequence type:
+ There are currently two intrinsic mutable sequence types:
Lists
.. index:: object: list
@@ -369,6 +369,14 @@
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