On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:27:08 +0200 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
22.03.19 09:31, Greg Ewing пише:
A poster on comp.lang.python is asking about array.array('u'). He wants an efficient mutable collection of unicode characters that can be initialised from a string.
According to the docs, the 'u' code is deprecated and will be removed in 4.0, but no alternative is suggested.
Why is this being deprecated, instead of keeping it and making it always 32 bits? It seems like useful functionality that can't be easily obtained another way.
Making it always 32 bits would be compatibility breaking change. Currently array('u') represents the wchar_t string, and many API on Windows require it.
The question is: why would you use a array.array() with a Windows C API? Regards Antoine.