#8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now raises an error.
diff --git a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
index 55b4df6..164c1cf 100644
--- a/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytearrayobject.c
@@ -589,6 +589,12 @@
needed = 0;
}
else if (values == (PyObject *)self || !PyByteArray_Check(values)) {
+ if (PyNumber_Check(values) || PyUnicode_Check(values)) {
+ PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
+ "can assign only bytes, buffers, or iterables "
+ "of ints in range(0, 256)");
+ return -1;
+ }
/* Make a copy and call this function recursively */
int err;
values = PyByteArray_FromObject(values);