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How CPython Implements bytes in C

Oct 20, 2026 6 min read Jay Hubbert

Python’s bytes is an immutable sequence of bytes. In CPython it is implemented by PyBytesObject in Objects/bytesobject.c, a variable-size object whose payload is a single trailing …

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