STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment: Other changes of the patch: - "u#": remove "Non-Unicode objects are handled by interpreting their read-buffer pointer ...", it's no more true - "es", "es#": remove "... and objects convertible to Unicode into a character buffer", it's no more true - Py_BuildValue(), "K" and "L" formats: specify the name of the C type on Windows (_int64 / unsigned _int64) as done for PyArg_Parse*() long long types If the patch is too long, I can try to split it into smaller parts. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8939> _______________________________________