sort of backport 66038 by aliasing PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/object.rst b/Doc/c-api/object.rst
index a2487ff..76e8beb 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/object.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/object.rst
@@ -130,6 +130,14 @@
by the :keyword:`print` statement.
+.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyObject_Bytes(PyObject *o)
+
+ .. index:: builtin: bytes
+
+ Compute a bytes representation of object *o*. In 2.x, this is just a alias
+ for :cfunc:`PyObject_Str`.
+
+
.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyObject_Unicode(PyObject *o)
.. index:: builtin: unicode
diff --git a/Include/object.h b/Include/object.h
index 4fb8a90..b02689c 100644
--- a/Include/object.h
+++ b/Include/object.h
@@ -458,6 +458,7 @@
PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_Repr(PyObject *);
PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) _PyObject_Str(PyObject *);
PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_Str(PyObject *);
+#define PyObject_Bytes PyObject_Str
#ifdef Py_USING_UNICODE
PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_Unicode(PyObject *);
#endif
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ff754df..f1aec99 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@
- Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
``__delslice__``.
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
+
Library
-------