Interesting. You're right. Code pointer: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Objects/unicodeobject.c#L5268 https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/mai

Interesting. You're right. Code pointer: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Objects/unicodeobject.c#L5268 https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Objects/unicodeo... Also implies that Animats is correct that including an emoji in a Python string can bloat the memory consumption by a factor of 4.