How to increase the speed of this program?

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Machin wrote:

> I'm extremely agnostic about the spelling :-) IOW I'd be very glad of
> any way [pure Python; e.g. maintaining my own version of the array
> module doesn't qualify] to simply and rapidly create an array.array
> instance with typecode t and number of elements n with each element
> initialised to value v (default to be the zero appropriate to the
> typecode).

     array(t, [v])*n

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