pythongh-115754: Use Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_EMPTY_BYTES)

Author: vstinner

Modules/_ctypes/_ctypes.c

@@ -4732,7 +4732,7 @@ Array_subscript(PyObject *myself, PyObject *item)
             char *dest;
 
             if (slicelen <= 0)
-                return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize("", 0);
+                return Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_EMPTY_BYTES);
             if (step == 1) {
                 return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(ptr + start,
                                                  slicelen);
@@ -5418,7 +5418,7 @@ Pointer_subscript(PyObject *myself, PyObject *item)
             char *dest;
 
             if (len <= 0)
-                return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize("", 0);
+                return Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_EMPTY_BYTES);
             if (step == 1) {
                 return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(ptr + start,
                                                  len);

Modules/_io/textio.c

@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ _io_IncrementalNewlineDecoder_getstate_impl(nldecoder_object *self)
         Py_DECREF(state);
     }
     else {
-        buffer = PyBytes_FromString("");
+        buffer = Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_EMPTY_BYTES);
         flag = 0;
     }
     flag <<= 1;

Modules/mmapmodule.c

@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ mmap_read_line_method(mmap_object *self,
 
     remaining = (self->pos < self->size) ? self->size - self->pos : 0;
     if (!remaining)
-        return PyBytes_FromString("");
+        return Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_EMPTY_BYTES);
     start = self->data + self->pos;
 
     if (safe_memchr(&eol, start, '\n', remaining) < 0) {
@@ -1274,7 +1274,7 @@ mmap_subscript(mmap_object *self, PyObject *item)
 
         CHECK_VALID(NULL);
         if (slicelen <= 0)
-            return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize("", 0);
+            return Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_EMPTY_BYTES);
         else if (step == 1)
             return _safe_PyBytes_FromStringAndSize(self->data + start, slicelen);
         else {

Modules/zlibmodule.c

@@ -267,12 +267,12 @@ newcompobject(PyTypeObject *type)
     self->eof = 0;
     self->is_initialised = 0;
     self->zdict = NULL;
-    self->unused_data = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize("", 0);
+    self->unused_data = Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_EMPTY_BYTES);
     if (self->unused_data == NULL) {
         Py_DECREF(self);
         return NULL;
     }
-    self->unconsumed_tail = PyBytes_FromStringAndSize("", 0);
+    self->unconsumed_tail = Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_EMPTY_BYTES);
     if (self->unconsumed_tail == NULL) {
         Py_DECREF(self);
         return NULL;

Objects/bytesobject.c

@@ -1638,7 +1638,7 @@ bytes_subscript(PyObject *op, PyObject* item)
                                             &stop, step);
 
         if (slicelength <= 0) {
-            return PyBytes_FromStringAndSize("", 0);
+            return Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_EMPTY_BYTES);
         }
         else if (start == 0 && step == 1 &&
                  slicelength == PyBytes_GET_SIZE(self) &&

Parser/action_helpers.c

@@ -1541,7 +1541,7 @@ _PyPegen_concatenate_strings(Parser *p, asdl_expr_seq *strings,
     }
 
     if (bytes_found) {
-        PyObject* res = PyBytes_FromString("");
+        PyObject* res = Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_EMPTY_BYTES);
 
         /* Bytes literals never get a kind, but just for consistency
            since they are represented as Constant nodes, we'll mirror