diff --git a/python/flatbuffers/builder.py b/python/flatbuffers/builder.py
index 9bdf116..f3b901b 100644
--- a/python/flatbuffers/builder.py
+++ b/python/flatbuffers/builder.py
@@ -112,7 +112,8 @@
 
     ## @cond FLATBUFFERS_INTENRAL
     __slots__ = ("Bytes", "current_vtable", "head", "minalign", "objectEnd",
-                 "vtables", "nested", "forceDefaults", "finished", "vectorNumElems")
+                 "vtables", "nested", "forceDefaults", "finished", "vectorNumElems",
+                 "sharedStrings")
 
     """Maximum buffer size constant, in bytes.
 
@@ -141,6 +142,7 @@
         self.vtables = {}
         self.nested = False
         self.forceDefaults = False
+        self.sharedStrings = {}
         ## @endcond
         self.finished = False
 
@@ -405,6 +407,20 @@
         self.vectorNumElems = None
         return self.Offset()
 
+    def CreateSharedString(self, s, encoding='utf-8', errors='strict'):
+        """
+        CreateSharedString checks if the string is already written to the buffer
+        before calling CreateString.
+        """
+
+        if s in self.sharedStrings:
+            return self.sharedStrings[s]
+
+        off = self.CreateString(s, encoding, errors)
+        self.sharedStrings[s] = off
+
+        return off
+
     def CreateString(self, s, encoding='utf-8', errors='strict'):
         """CreateString writes a null-terminated byte string as a vector."""