When defining a variable type that will hold a string in Cython + Python 3, I can use (at least):
cdef char* mystring = "foo"
cdef str mystring = "foo"
cdef bytes mystring = "foo"
The documentation page on strings is unclear on this -- it mostly gives examples using char* and bytes, and frankly I'm having a lot of difficulty understanding it.
In my case the strings will be coming from a Python3 program and are assumed to be …