dateutil.parse.parse() rejects bytearray as input #417
Description
>>> import dateutil.parser
>>> dateutil.parser.parse(b'17 Jan 2017')
datetime.datetime(2017, 1, 17, 0, 0)
>>> dateutil.parser.parse(bytearray(b'17 Jan 2017'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 1168, in parse
return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 556, in parse
res, skipped_tokens = self._parse(timestr, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 675, in _parse
l = _timelex.split(timestr) # Splits the timestr into tokens
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 192, in split
return list(cls(s))
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/dateutil/parser.py", line 61, in __init__
'{itype}'.format(itype=instream.__class__.__name__))
TypeError: Parser must be a string or character stream, not bytearray
Any function which can operate on a bytes ought to be able to operate on a bytearray---unless something has specifically been done to prevent that, as in dateutil.parser.parse(). When bytes works, it's unexpected that bytearray would fail. It would be better to accept bytearrays as well.