Message 74240 - Python tracker
> You should also support bytearray() in ntpath:
> isinstance(path, (bytes, bytearray))
The most generic way of allowing all bytes-alike objects is to write:
path = bytes(path)
It raises a TypeError if `path` can't export a read-only buffer of
contiguous bytes; also, it is a no-op if `path` is already a bytes
object, so very cheap in the common case.