# Pastebin OMxqt9jW

    @specialize.arg_or_var(1)
    def newtext(self, s, lgt=-1, unused=-1):
        # the unused argument can be from something like
        # newtext(*decode_utf8sp(space, code))
        if isinstance(s, unicode):
            s, lgt = s.encode('utf8'), len(s)
        else:
            if is_annotation_constant(s) and is_annotation_constant(lgt):
                return self._newtext_memo(s, lgt)
        assert isinstance(s, str)
        if lgt < 0:
            lgt = rutf8.codepoints_in_utf8(s)
        return W_UnicodeObject(s, lgt)