bytes implied to be mutable

[SpecLad]

BPO	14023
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @SpecLad

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[SpecLad]

The language reference in section 5.2.2 states:

~
With the exception of bytes literals, these all correspond to immutable data types, <...>
~

But bytes objects are immutable as well.

[python-dev]

New changeset 88522997b021 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch '3.2':
bpo-14023 Revert edit to 2.7 version. (I suspect edit is from when we thought
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/88522997b021

[terryjreedy]

applied to 3.3 also