# distutils: language = c++

from libcpp.string cimport string
from libcpp.vector cimport vector

py_bytes_object = b'The knights who say ni'
py_unicode_object = u'Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale.'

cdef string s = py_bytes_object
print(s)  # b'The knights who say ni'

cdef string cpp_string = <string> py_unicode_object.encode('utf-8')
print(cpp_string)  # b'Those who hear them seldom live to tell the tale.'

cdef vector[int] vect = range(1, 10, 2)
print(vect)  # [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]

cdef vector[string] cpp_strings = b'It is a good shrubbery'.split()
print(cpp_strings[1])   # b'is'