pythongh-115323: Add meaningful error message for using bytearray.ext…

…end with str (pythonGH-115332)

Perform str check after TypeError is raised
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(cherry picked from commit 948acd6)

Co-authored-by: Jay Ting <65202977+jayasting98@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>

Lib/test/test_bytes.py

@@ -1571,6 +1571,13 @@ def test_extend(self):
         a = bytearray(b'')
         a.extend([Indexable(ord('a'))])
         self.assertEqual(a, b'a')
+        a = bytearray(b'abc')
+        self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError,  # Override for string.
+                               "expected iterable of integers; got: 'str'",
+                               a.extend, 'def')
+        self.assertRaisesRegex(TypeError,  # But not for others.
+                               "can't extend bytearray with float",
+                               a.extend, 1.0)
 
     def test_remove(self):
         b = bytearray(b'hello')

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-02-12-23-29-17.gh-issue-115323.3t6687.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Make error message more meaningful for when :meth:`bytearray.extend` is
+called with a :class:`str` object.

Objects/bytearrayobject.c

@@ -1730,6 +1730,10 @@ bytearray_extend(PyByteArrayObject *self, PyObject *iterable_of_ints)
 
     while ((item = PyIter_Next(it)) != NULL) {
         if (! _getbytevalue(item, &value)) {
+            if (PyErr_ExceptionMatches(PyExc_TypeError) && PyUnicode_Check(iterable_of_ints)) {
+                PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
+                             "expected iterable of integers; got: 'str'");
+            }
             Py_DECREF(item);
             Py_DECREF(it);
             Py_DECREF(bytearray_obj);