def zeros(shape, dtype='d'):
    sa = create(shape, dtype='d')

    #contrary to the documentation, sharedctypes.RawArray does NOT always return
    #an array which is initialised to zero - do it ourselves
    #http://code.google.com/p/python-multiprocessing/issues/detail?id=25
    sa[:] = numpy.zeros(1, dtype)
    return sa
Create an shared array initialised to zeros. Avoid object arrays, as these
dataset/ETHPy150Open aheadley/pynemap/shmem.py/zeros