import array import binascii s = 'This is the array.' a = array.array('c',s) print 'As string:',s print 'As array:',a print 'As hex:',binascii.hexlify(a) import pprint a = array.array('i',xrange(3)) print 'Initial:',a a.extend(xrange(3)) print 'Extended:',a print 'Slice:',a[2:5] print 'Iterator:' print list(enumerate(a))