[mypyc] Support the u8 native integer type #15564
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This is mostly similar to
i16that I added recently in #15464, but there are somedifferences:
u8due to limited rangeint16toi16(etc.) to match the user-visible types (needed to get some error messages consistent, and it's generally nicer)mypy_extensionsstubsThis is an unsigned type to make it easier to work with binary/bytes data. The item values for
bytesare unsigned 8-bit values, in particular. This type will become much more useful once we support packed arrays.