[issue8401] Strange behavior of bytearray slice assignment

[Eugene Kapun]

Eugene Kapun <abacabadabacaba at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Not really, chars are not ints
Yes, however, empty string contains exactly zero chars.
> and anyway the empty string fall in the first case.
Strings aren't mentioned in documentation of bytearray slice assignment. However, I think that bytearray constructor should accept empty string too, without an encoding, for consistency.

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