[issue29729] UUID bytes constructor has too-tight an assertion

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[issue29729] UUID bytes constructor has too-tight an assertion

New submission from Nic Watson: The assertion: File "/usr/lib/python3.6/uuid.py", line 150, in __init__ assert isinstance(bytes, bytes_), repr(bytes) is too specific (and IMHO, unpythonic). One may want to pass a bytearray or a memoryview. See int.from_bytes for an example that takes "