[Python-3000] Weird error message from bytes type

[Georg Brandl]

Thomas Wouters schrieb:
> 
> This is because a bytes object is not a sequence of bytes objects, like 
> strings. It's a sequence of small integer values, so you need to assign 
> a small integer value to it. You can assign b'a'[0] to it, or assign 
> b'a' to x[:1]. I guess we could specialcase length-1 bytes to make this 
> work 'naturally', but I'm not sure that's the right approach. Guido?

If it is deemed right, see attached patch.

BTW, is it intentional that the setitem/setslice code is duplicated in
bytesobject.c?

Georg
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