[issue37367] octal escapes applied inconsistently throughout the interpreter and lib

[Jeffrey Kintscher]

Jeffrey Kintscher <websurfer at surf2c.net> added the comment:

The PR is ready for review.  It raises ValueError if the escaped octal value in a byte string is greater than 255.

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