diff -r 61ca4732399b Lib/test/test_wave.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_wave.py	Wed Sep 04 14:30:16 2013 +0300
+++ b/Lib/test/test_wave.py	Wed Sep 04 16:47:28 2013 +0300
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from test.support import TESTFN, unlink
 import wave
 import pickle
+import array
 import unittest
 
 nchannels = 2
@@ -125,6 +126,23 @@
             self.assertEqual(params.framerate, framerate)
         self.assertIsNone(f.getfp())
 
+    def test_write_array(self):
+        self.f = wave.open(TESTFN, 'wb')
+        self.f.setnchannels(nchannels)
+        self.f.setsampwidth(sampwidth)
+        self.f.setframerate(framerate)
+        self.f.setnframes(nframes)
+        frames = bytes(i % 256 for i in range(nframes * nchannels * sampwidth))
+        self.f.writeframes(array.array('h', frames))
+        self.f.close()
+
+        self.f = wave.open(TESTFN, 'rb')
+        self.assertEqual(nchannels, self.f.getnchannels())
+        self.assertEqual(sampwidth, self.f.getsampwidth())
+        self.assertEqual(framerate, self.f.getframerate())
+        self.assertEqual(nframes, self.f.getnframes())
+        self.assertEqual(self.f.readframes(nframes), frames)
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()