array module has undocumented features

[phr]

BPO	518767
Nosy	@freddrake

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[phr]

It turns out arrays support list slice operations and
string operations:

p = array('B','potato')
p[2:2]=array('B','banana')  # works!  insert banana
re.search('ta',p).span()    # also works!

I wouldn't have guessed from the docs for the array
module that the slice and regexp operations were
supported. If they're "officially" supposed to work,
the doc should be say so.

[freddrake]

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Fixed in Doc/lib/libarray.tex revision 1.31.8.1, clarified
in 1.33.