diff --git a/src/types/string.rs b/src/types/string.rs
index 11965bbd..4b964861 100644
--- a/src/types/string.rs
+++ b/src/types/string.rs
@@ -215,6 +215,18 @@ impl<'source> FromPyObject<'source> for String {
     }
 }
 
+impl<'a> FromPy<&'a [u8]> for PyObject {
+    fn from_py(other: &'a [u8], py: Python) -> Self {
+        PyBytes::new(py, other).to_object(py)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a> FromPyObject<'a> for &'a [u8] {
+    fn extract(obj: &'a PyAny) -> PyResult<Self> {
+        Ok(<PyBytes as PyTryFrom>::try_from(obj)?.as_bytes())
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod test {
     use super::{PyBytes, PyString};
@@ -244,6 +256,16 @@ mod test {
         assert_eq!(s, s2);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_extract_bytes() {
+        let gil = Python::acquire_gil();
+        let py = gil.python();
+
+        let py_bytes = py.eval("b'Hello Python'", None, None).unwrap();
+        let bytes: &[u8] = FromPyObject::extract(py_bytes).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(bytes, b"Hello Python");
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_as_bytes() {
         let gil = Python::acquire_gil();
diff --git a/tests/test_bytes.rs b/tests/test_bytes.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cffd6053
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_bytes.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+use pyo3::prelude::*;
+use pyo3::wrap_pyfunction;
+
+mod common;
+
+#[pyfunction]
+fn bytes_pybytes_conversion(bytes: &[u8]) -> &[u8] {
+    bytes
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_pybytes_bytes_conversion() {
+    let gil = Python::acquire_gil();
+    let py = gil.python();
+
+    let bytes_pybytes_conversion = wrap_pyfunction!(bytes_pybytes_conversion)(py);
+    py_assert!(
+        py,
+        bytes_pybytes_conversion,
+        "bytes_pybytes_conversion(b'Hello World') == b'Hello World'"
+    );
+}