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diff --git a/tests/basics/array_construct.py b/tests/basics/array_construct.py
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+# test construction of array.array from different objects
+
+from array import array
+
+# tuple, list
+print(array('b', (1, 2)))
+print(array('h', [1, 2]))
+
+# raw copy from bytes, bytearray
+print(array('h', b'12'))
+print(array('h', bytearray(2)))
+print(array('i', bytearray(4)))
+
+# convert from other arrays
+print(array('H', array('b', [1, 2])))
+print(array('f', array('h', [1, 2])))
+print(array('b', array('I', [1, 2])))
+print(array('d', array('f', [1, 2])))
diff --git a/tests/basics/bytearray_construct.py b/tests/basics/bytearray_construct.py
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+# test construction of bytearray from different objects
+
+from array import array
+
+# bytes, tuple, list
+print(bytearray(b'123'))
+print(bytearray((1, 2)))
+print(bytearray([1, 2]))
+
+# arrays
+print(bytearray(array('b', [1, 2])))
+print(bytearray(array('h', [1, 2])))
+print(bytearray(array('I', [1, 2])))
+print(bytearray(array('f', [1, 2.3])))
diff --git a/tests/basics/bytes_construct.py b/tests/basics/bytes_construct.py
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+# test construction of bytes from different objects
+
+from array import array
+
+# tuple, list, bytearray
+print(bytes((1, 2)))
+print(bytes([1, 2]))
+print(bytes(bytearray(4)))
+
+# arrays
+print(bytes(array('b', [1, 2])))
+print(bytes(array('h', [1, 2])))
+print(bytes(array('I', [1, 2])))
+print(bytes(array('f', [1, 2.3])))