Issue #14889: PyBytes_FromObject(bytes) now just increfs and returns.

Previously, if you passed in a bytes object, it would create a whole
new object.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index efe6ef87b3..14bd8e68c5 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -2577,6 +2577,12 @@ PyBytes_FromObject(PyObject *x)
         PyErr_BadInternalCall();
         return NULL;
     }
+
+    if (PyBytes_CheckExact(x)) {
+        Py_INCREF(x);
+        return x;
+    }
+
     /* Use the modern buffer interface */
     if (PyObject_CheckBuffer(x)) {
         Py_buffer view;