Use unicode and remove support for some uses of str8.
diff --git a/Modules/arraymodule.c b/Modules/arraymodule.c
index eb26698..65c0bf0 100644
--- a/Modules/arraymodule.c
+++ b/Modules/arraymodule.c
@@ -1819,7 +1819,7 @@
 
 	if (!(initial == NULL || PyList_Check(initial)
 	      || PyBytes_Check(initial)
-	      || PyString_Check(initial) || PyTuple_Check(initial)
+	      || PyTuple_Check(initial)
 	      || (c == PyArr_UNI && PyUnicode_Check(initial)))) {
 		it = PyObject_GetIter(initial);
 		if (it == NULL)
@@ -1862,8 +1862,7 @@
 					}
 					Py_DECREF(v);
 				}
-			} else if (initial != NULL &&
-				   (PyString_Check(initial) || PyBytes_Check(initial))) {
+			} else if (initial != NULL && PyBytes_Check(initial)) {
 				PyObject *t_initial, *v;
 				t_initial = PyTuple_Pack(1, initial);
 				if (t_initial == NULL) {