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	▲	cloudbonsai 2 hours ago
		> There is no caching of a "utf-8 representation". No there certainly is. This is documented in the official API documentation: `UTF-8 representation is created on demand and cached in the Unicode object. https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/unicode.html#unicode-objects` In particular, Python's Unicode object (PyUnicodeObject) contains a field named utf8. This field is populated when PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize() is first called and reused thereafter. You can check the exact code I'm talking about here: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Objects/unicodeo... Is it clear enough?