[New-bugs-announce] [issue1303] adapt str8 constructor to bytes constructor

[Georg Brandl]

New submission from Georg Brandl:

This makes the str8 constructor accept the same kinds of types as the
bytes constructor. I had to fix instances of str8("abc") to str8(b"abc")
to make tests pass again. The only remaining failure should be test_str
-- the string test suite must be thoroughly redesigned to fit all three
string-like types.

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assignee: gvanrossum
components: Interpreter Core
files: str_constructor.diff
keywords: py3k
messages: 56572
nosy: georg.brandl, gvanrossum
severity: normal
status: open
title: adapt str8 constructor to bytes constructor
versions: Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file8570/str_constructor.diff

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