Creating an array with a bytes object as initializer
should treat the bytes as it treats a string.
Not doing this broke re.compile() of big charsets.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_array.py b/Lib/test/test_array.py
index 9b11edf..cf5c2e8 100755
--- a/Lib/test/test_array.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_array.py
@@ -700,6 +700,10 @@
# SF bug #1486663 -- this used to erroneously raise a TypeError
ArraySubclassWithKwargs('b', newarg=1)
+ def test_create_from_bytes(self):
+ a = array.array('H', b"1234")
+ self.assertEqual(len(a) * a.itemsize, 4)
+
class StringTest(BaseTest):