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>>> import array
>>> array.array(u'i', [1,2,3])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: must be char, not unicode

In this ticket #13566, Alexandre Vassalotti said:
"We should still fix array in 2.7 to accept unicode object for the typecode though."

So here is the patch to add support for ascii-unicode typecode for array.array constructor.