[issue20895] Add bytes.empty_buffer and deprecate bytes(17) for the same purpose

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

Bringing over Barry's suggestion from the current python-ideas thread [1]:

    @classmethod
    def fill(cls, length, value=0):
        # Creates a bytes of given length with given fill value

[1] https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-March/027305.html

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