[issue27923] PEP 467 -- Minor API improvements for binary sequences

[Elias Zamaria]

New submission from Elias Zamaria:

This is my attempt at implementing PEP 467.

I am not an expert in the details of the Python interpreter, and this is my first time working on a big project in C, so I am not sure if I am doing things in the most elegant or efficient way, but it seems to work fine, as far as I can tell.

I have added some tests for the new functionality. I am planning to work on changes to the documentation some time in the next few days.

I noticed a lot of places that are using the deprecated integer-argument bytes and bytearray constructors. I left most of them alone, although I changed a few of them to the zeros constructors to prevent certain tests from failing.

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components: Interpreter Core
files: pep467.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 274082
nosy: mikez302
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: PEP 467 -- Minor API improvements for binary sequences
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44312/pep467.patch

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