Python in a Nutshell

Name

zeros

Synopsis

zeros(length,typecode)

Creates a Java array z with length length and elements of the class or type given by typecode, which has the same meaning as in function array. zeros initializes each element of z to 0, null, or false, as appropriate for the type or class. Of course, when you access such elements from Jython code, you see them as the equivalent Python 0 values (or None as the Jython equivalent of Java null), but when Java code accesses the elements, it sees them with the appropriate Java types and values.

You can use instances created by functions array and zeros as Python sequences of fixed length. When you pass such an instance to a Java method that accepts an array argument and modifies the argument, the changes are visible in the instance, so your Python code can effectively call such methods.