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    golang_str: Treat bytearray also as bytestring, just mutable · e4d5cb21
    Kirill Smelkov authored
    bytearray was introduced in Python as a mutable version of bytes. It has
    all strings methods (e.g. .capitalize() .islower(), etc), and it also
    supports % formatting. In other words it has all attributes of being a
    byte-string, with the only difference from bytes in that bytearray is
    mutable. In other words bytearray is handy to have when a string is
    being incrementally constructed step by step without hitting overhead of
    many bytes objects creation/destruction.
    
    So, since bytearray is also a bytestring, similarly to bytes, let's add
    support to interoperate with bytearray to bstr and ustr:
    
    - b/u and bstr/ustr now accept bytearray as argument and treat it as bytestring.
    - bytearray() constructor, similarly to bytes() and unicode()
      constructors, now also accepts bstr/ustr and create bytearray object
      corresponding to byte-stream of input.
    
    For the latter point to work we need to patch bytearray.__init__() a bit,
    since, contrary to bytes.__init__(), it does not pay attention to
    whether provided argument has __bytes__ method or not.
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