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On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> wrote:
> Chris Hinsley <chris.hinsley@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Is a Python list as fast as a bytearray ?
>
> Python does not actually have a native array type.  Everything in your
> program that looked like an array was actually a list.

How do you mean?

>>> isinstance(bytearray(b'RNBQKBNR'), list)
False