On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
... "s": For Unicode objects: auto convert them to the <default encoding> and return a pointer to the object's <defencstr> buffer.
Guess that I didn't notice this before, but it seems wierd that "s" and "s#" return different encodings. Why?
"es": Takes two parameters: encoding (const char **) and buffer (char **). ... "es#": Takes three parameters: encoding (const char **), buffer (char **) and buffer_len (int *).
I see no reason to make the encoding (const char **) rather than (const char *). We are never returning a value, so this just makes it harder to pass the encoding into ParseTuple. There is precedent for passing in single-ref pointers. For example: PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "O!", &s, PyString_Type) I would recommend using just one pointer level for the encoding. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/