From 028f834677ee46ca6d3bac712d9a38fdae56eedd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nils Homer <nilshomer@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 22:07:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove redundant copy in getSequenceInRange

---
 pysam/libcalignedsegment.pyx | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pysam/libcalignedsegment.pyx b/pysam/libcalignedsegment.pyx
index c33188cd8..0db89f61a 100644
--- a/pysam/libcalignedsegment.pyx
+++ b/pysam/libcalignedsegment.pyx
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ cdef inline bytes getSequenceInRange(bam1_t *src,
         # note: do not use string literal as it will be a python string
         s[k-start] = seq_nt16_str[p[k//2] >> 4 * (1 - k%2) & 0xf]
 
-    return charptr_to_bytes(seq)
+    return seq
 
 
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