[issue8401] Strange behavior of bytearray slice assignment

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

-1 on assigning strings to slices of bytearrays. As Ezio mentions, this operation conceptually requires an encoding, and no encoding is readily available in the slice assignment.

-1 on special-casing empty strings.

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