diff --git a/Doc/c-api/object.rst b/Doc/c-api/object.rst
index a2487ff56eb..76e8beb3e11 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/object.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/object.rst
@@ -130,6 +130,14 @@ Object Protocol
    by the :keyword:`print` statement.
 
 
+.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyObject_Bytes(PyObject *o)
+
+   .. index:: builtin: bytes
+
+   Compute a bytes representation of object *o*.  In 2.x, this is just a alias
+   for :cfunc:`PyObject_Str`.
+
+
 .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyObject_Unicode(PyObject *o)
 
    .. index:: builtin: unicode
diff --git a/Include/object.h b/Include/object.h
index 4fb8a90a3d9..b02689cc4a6 100644
--- a/Include/object.h
+++ b/Include/object.h
@@ -458,6 +458,7 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(void) _PyObject_Dump(PyObject *);
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_Repr(PyObject *);
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) _PyObject_Str(PyObject *);
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_Str(PyObject *);
+#define PyObject_Bytes PyObject_Str
 #ifdef Py_USING_UNICODE
 PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyObject_Unicode(PyObject *);
 #endif
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ff754dfbb0b..f1aec999d87 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Added warnings on the use of ``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, or
   ``__delslice__``.
 
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Aliased PyObject_Bytes to PyObject_Str.
+
 Library
 -------