From 40aa964057746c0e8f913228de95973a46ee3c0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jared Junyoung Lim <jylim9823@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 14:42:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add Ref.AsStringBytes to flatbuffers.flexbuffers Python API
 (#7713)

* Add Ref.AsStringBytes to flatbuffers.flexbuffers Python API

* Append Bytes to AsStringBytes return value

Co-authored-by: Jared Junyoung Lim <jaredlim@google.com>
---
 python/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.py | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/python/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.py b/python/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.py
index da10668a4..aaa02fdaf 100644
--- a/python/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.py
+++ b/python/flatbuffers/flexbuffers.py
@@ -727,6 +727,15 @@ class Ref:
   def IsString(self):
     return self._type is Type.STRING
 
+  @property
+  def AsStringBytes(self):
+    if self.IsString:
+      return String(self._Indirect(), self._byte_width).Bytes
+    elif self.IsKey:
+      return self.AsKeyBytes
+    else:
+      raise self._ConvertError(Type.STRING)
+
   @property
   def AsString(self):
     if self.IsString: