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Author	steven.daprano
Recipients	steven.daprano
Date	2017-11-10.23:53:08
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
Marked as misclassified	Yes
Message-id	<1510357988.91.0.213398074469.issue32005@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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multiprocessing.Array slice assignment claims to require a single character even if it requires more than one: py> arr = multiprocessing.Array('c', 3) py> arr[:] = b'xyz' # works py> arr[:] = 'xyz' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py", line 226, in __setitem__ self._obj[i] = value TypeError: one character bytes, bytearray or integer expected

multiprocessing.Array slice assignment claims to require a single character even if it requires more than one:

py> arr = multiprocessing.Array('c', 3)
py> arr[:] = b'xyz'  # works
py> arr[:] = 'xyz'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/multiprocessing/sharedctypes.py", line 226, in __setitem__
    self._obj[i] = value
TypeError: one character bytes, bytearray or integer expected

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