[issue20895] Add bytes.empty_buffer and deprecate bytes(17) for the same purpose

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

Under the name "from_len", this is now part of a larger proposal to improve the consistency of the binary APIs: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0467/

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