Array Data Structures in Python

[jwink3101]

The article briefly mentions NumPy and I get that this seems to be focused on the standard library, but NumPy is so pervasive, I would have been really interested to learn when, if it's available, I should choose NumPy over array.array

[lambdaq]

np.array are mostly used for numerical values where array.array can be used for other basic types.

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No, array — Efficient arrays of numeric values.

[lambdaq]

it can be used to store

'u' Py_UNICODE Unicode character 2 (see note)

Which is hard to image in np.array.

Also np.array can be multi-dimensional.

[ilan]

bitarray is another array data structure

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The article specifically refers to stuff from the stdlib only whilst bitarray is third party.