[issue29116] Make str and bytes error messages on concatenation conform with other sequences

[Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard]

Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard added the comment:

Should that message be the one predominantly used for sequences, i.e:

   TypeError: can only concatenate class1 (not "class2") to class1

or should another one be used like "Unsupported operand type(s) for op: 'class1' and 'class2'?

The first is problematic with cases like `+=` where an iterable is accepted, the second seems better to me at least.

As for `operator.concat`, any reason why the check is made beforehand to see if the first argument has a `__getitem__` method? Couldn't that just be removed allowing the exception from `concat(1, '')` to just propagate to the caller?

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