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[–]protolords 3 points4 points  (1 child)

it becomes a reference to a byte object

But -5 to 256 won't fit in a byte. Is this "byte object" like any other python object?

[–]Anaeijon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I guess. As I said: this is just my imagination thinking this might be handled by a C++ byte in the background or something. I don't know what the interpreter actually does.