But I am not sure about adding these method for bytearray.

Currently the bytearray api is almost a strict superset of the bytes api:

>>> set(dir(bytes)) - set(dir(bytearray))
{'__getnewargs__'}

and I didn't want to break that.

Needed also updates of the documentation.

I will work on the docs tonight and tomorrow.

Thank you. All this LGTM, and I am impressed by the quality of code from a new contributor.

I do not press the "Approve" button only because I did not follow the discussion. You need an approve from a core developer more interested in this feature.

Please add also a What's New entry. And add your name in Misc/ACKS.

Does someone know how to make the docs escape the slice string[:len(string)-len(suffix)]? I'm having trouble with Sphinx thinking that :len is a special kind of role.

Does someone know how to make the docs escape the slice string[:len(string)-len(suffix)]? I'm having trouble with Sphinx thinking that :len is a special kind of role.

Sadly, your documentation syntax is correct. It's a bug in the "make suspicious" target of Doc/Makefile:

Makefile:115: recipe for target 'suspicious' failed

We could try to fix "make suspicious". But first I suggest you to write string[:-len(suffix)] instead: it's the syntax used in the PEP 616 and it's correct. I'm not sure why you chose to explicit the string length. I expect that "make suspicious" will not complain on :- which doesn't look like a Sphinx markup.

Congrats @sweeneyde, I merged your PR! Maybe the documentation could still be enhanced even more, but I think that it's now good enough for an alpha release ;-) I built the documentation locally to check if it is rendered correctly and it was the case. I didn't see any obvious Sphinx syntax issue.

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Buildbot failure ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Hi! The buildbot AMD64 Fedora Stable LTO + PGO 3.x has failed when building commit a81849b.

What do you need to do:

1. Don't panic.
2. Check the buildbot page in the devguide if you don't know what the buildbots are or how they work.
3. Go to the page of the buildbot that failed (https://buildbot.python.org/all/#builders/64/builds/656) and take a look at the build logs.
4. Check if the failure is related to this commit (a81849b) or if it is a false positive.
5. If the failure is related to this commit, please, reflect that on the issue and make a new Pull Request with a fix.

You can take a look at the buildbot page here:

https://buildbot.python.org/all/#builders/64/builds/656

Failed tests:

• test_concurrent_futures

Failed subtests:

• test_killed_child - test.test_concurrent_futures.ProcessPoolSpawnProcessPoolExecutorTest

Summary of the results of the build (if available):

== Tests result: FAILURE then FAILURE ==

406 tests OK.

10 slowest tests:

• test_concurrent_futures: 2 min 39 sec
• test_multiprocessing_spawn: 1 min 43 sec
• test_mailbox: 1 min 22 sec
• test_nntplib: 1 min 21 sec
• test_multiprocessing_forkserver: 1 min 15 sec
• test_shelve: 1 min 3 sec
• test_multiprocessing_fork: 1 min 3 sec
• test_largefile: 51.6 sec
• test_asyncio: 48.8 sec
• test_signal: 47.1 sec

1 test failed:
test_concurrent_futures

14 tests skipped:
test_devpoll test_gdb test_ioctl test_kqueue test_msilib
test_ossaudiodev test_startfile test_tix test_tk test_ttk_guionly
test_winconsoleio test_winreg test_winsound test_zipfile64

1 re-run test:
test_concurrent_futures

Total duration: 5 min 46 sec

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.cstratak-fedora-stable-x86_64.lto-pgo/build/Lib/test/test_concurrent_futures.py", line 130, in tearDown
    self.executor.shutdown(wait=True)
  File "/home/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.cstratak-fedora-stable-x86_64.lto-pgo/build/Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py", line 724, in shutdown
    self._executor_manager_thread_wakeup.wakeup()
  File "/home/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.cstratak-fedora-stable-x86_64.lto-pgo/build/Lib/concurrent/futures/process.py", line 80, in wakeup
    self._writer.send_bytes(b"")
  File "/home/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.cstratak-fedora-stable-x86_64.lto-pgo/build/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 205, in send_bytes
    self._send_bytes(m[offset:offset + size])
  File "/home/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.cstratak-fedora-stable-x86_64.lto-pgo/build/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 416, in _send_bytes
    self._send(header + buf)
  File "/home/buildbot/buildarea/3.x.cstratak-fedora-stable-x86_64.lto-pgo/build/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py", line 373, in _send
    n = write(self._handle, buf)
OSError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor