Circuit Playground Express TV Zapper issue with array.array

[justinmbrock]

Board: Circuit Playground Express
CircuitPython Version: 6.1.0
CP Libraries used: adafruit-circuitpython-bundle-6.x-mpy-20210206.zip
Guide link: https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-tv-zapper-with-circuit-playground-express/overview

This guide was written prior to CircuitPython version 4.0.1, which introduced breaking changes to, among other things, array.array, which now checks for values too large to fit (consistent with CPython). Somehow this guide worked previously, even with the array being fed values that were too large. I don't know how to fix it, and thought someone here might know how to correct the issue.
REPL output:

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code.py output:
{'index': [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1], 'freq': 56697, 'delay': 0.21, 'repeat': 2, 'repeat_delay': 0.008, 'table': [[3968, 3993], [493, 2003], [493, 1009]]}
{'index': [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0], 'freq': 36266, 'delay': 0.29, 'repeat': 2, 'repeat_delay': 0.09, 'table': [[882, 906], [1764, 910], [882, 1790]]}
{'index': [0, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1], 'freq': 38707, 'delay': 0.27, 'repeat': 2, 'repeat_delay': 0.064, 'table': [[3332, 1665], [413, 431], [413, 1216]]}
{'index': [0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2], 'freq': 38706, 'delay': 0.25, 'repeat': 2, 'repeat_delay': 0.042, 'table': [[2376, 603], [1162, 625], [594, 603]]}
{'index': [0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 0], 'freq': 39466, 'delay': 0.33, 'repeat': 2, 'repeat_delay': 0.125, 'table': [[506, 497], [506, 4074], [506, 5067]]}
{'index': [0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1], 'freq': 38338, 'delay': 0.25, 'repeat': 2, 'repeat_delay': 0.046, 'table': [[4460, 4500], [573, 1680], [573, 567]]}
{'index': [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], 'freq': 38706, 'delay': 0.24, 'repeat': 2, 'repeat_delay': 0.04, 'table': [[310, 1694], [310, 700], [310, 39767]]}
{'delay': 0.23, 'freq': 38705, 'index': [0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1], 'table': [[8370, 4175], [516, 1576], [516, 553], [516, 22213]]}
{'delay': 0.3, 'freq': 38339, 'index': [0, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4, 1], 'table': [[8946, 4488], [547, 590], [547, 1709], [547, 39729], [8946, 2253], [547, 95603]]}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "code.py", line 67, in <module>
OverflowError: value must fit in 2 byte(s)

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[Limor "Ladyada" Fried]

wanna try fixing? you'd have to set the values to maximum 65535!

[justinmbrock]

Easy enough to change. I also spotted a module that changed since it was written and updated the code for that as well.