Added support of bytearrays to msgpack/fallback.py

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/msgpack/fallback.py b/msgpack/fallback.py
index bf5b1c2..3ef1341 100644
--- a/msgpack/fallback.py
+++ b/msgpack/fallback.py
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ class Unpacker(object):
     def feed(self, next_bytes):
         if isinstance(next_bytes, array.array):
             next_bytes = next_bytes.tostring()
+        elif isinstance(next_bytes, bytearray):
+            next_bytes = str(next_bytes)
         assert self._fb_feeding
         if self._fb_buf_n + len(next_bytes) > self._max_buffer_size:
             raise BufferFull
diff --git a/test/test_buffer.py b/test/test_buffer.py
index 04cc02d..5ae87ac 100644
--- a/test/test_buffer.py
+++ b/test/test_buffer.py
@@ -11,3 +11,10 @@ def test_unpack_buffer():
     obj = unpackb(buf, use_list=1)
     assert [b'foo', b'bar'] == obj
 
+
+def test_unpack_bytearray():
+    buf = bytearray(packb(('foo', 'bar')))
+    obj = unpackb(buf, use_list=1)
+    assert [b'foo', b'bar'] == obj
+    assert all(type(s)==str for s in obj)
+