From 9a6e62b947ebb5547ca9a164f6145a461b98d86a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:20:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix buglet in slice assignment of bytesobjects: assigning to
 b[3:0] ('stop' being before 'start') would actually assign to b[0:0] (or
 whatever 'stop' was)

---
 Lib/test/test_bytes.py | 3 +++
 Objects/bytesobject.c  | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
index d45ff648510..210f08ca73d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_bytes.py
@@ -235,6 +235,9 @@ def test_setslice(self):
 
         b[3:5] = [3, 4, 5, 6]
         self.assertEqual(b, bytes(range(10)))
+        
+        b[3:0] = [42, 42, 42]
+        self.assertEqual(b, bytes([0, 1, 2, 42, 42, 42, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]))
 
     def test_setslice_trap(self):
         # This test verifies that we correctly handle assigning self
diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index d6cce6d49ec..3127c9d1695 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@ bytes_setslice(PyBytesObject *self, Py_ssize_t lo, Py_ssize_t hi,
 
     if (lo < 0)
         lo = 0;
+    if (hi < lo)
+        hi = lo;
     if (hi > self->ob_size)
         hi = self->ob_size;