Python には char 型がありますか?

>>> import sys
>>> sys.getsizeof('')
37
>>> sys.getsizeof('a')
38

typedef struct {
PyObject_VAR_HEAD
long ob_shash;
int ob_sstate;
char ob_sval[1];
/* Invariants:
* ob_sval contains space for 'ob_size+1' elements.
* ob_sval[ob_size] == 0.
* ob_shash is the hash of the string or -1 if not computed yet.
* ob_sstate != 0 iff the string object is in stringobject.c's
* 'interned' dictionary; in this case the two references
* from 'interned' to this object are *not counted* in ob_refcnt.
*/
} PyStringObject;

/* This dictionary holds all interned strings. Note that references to
strings in this dictionary are *not* counted in the string's ob_refcnt.
When the interned string reaches a refcnt of 0 the string deallocation
function will delete the reference from this dictionary.
Another way to look at this is that to say that the actual reference
count of a string is: s->ob_refcnt + (s->ob_sstate?2:0)
*/
static PyObject *interned;

typedef struct {
PyObject_HEAD
long ob_ival;
} PyIntObject;