bytearray's methods aren't consistent in what they accept.             
        

append() takes either an int or a character:                           
        
                                                                       
        
>>> b = bytearray('abc')                                               
        
>>> b.append(76) ; b                                                   
        
bytearray(b'abcL')                                                     
        
>>> b.append('M') ; b                                                  
        
bytearray(b'abcLM')                                                    
        
                                                                       
        
.insert() accepts only integers:                                       
        
                                                                       
        
>>> b.insert(0, 97) ; b                                                
        
bytearray(b'aabcLM')                                                   
        
>>> b.insert(0, 'a') ; b                                               
        
Traceback (most recent call last):                                     
        
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>                                  
        
TypeError: an integer is required                                      
        
                                                                       
        
Both PEP 358 and the docstring for .append() only document 'int' as a  
        
legal input, so I suspect append() is wrong here.

The following patch fixes the behavior, .append and .insert will accept
only integer as parameters.

Is this really the desired behavior? I mean, why not to accept a
character for both methods?

There are two tests in Lib/test/test_io.py that uses the old behavior
for .append().

Fixed in 2.6 r65041, and 3k r65043.