On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:02:36 +0100
Victor Stinner
Le Lundi 21 Novembre 2011 16:55:05 Antoine Pitrou a écrit :
I want to rename PyUnicode_AsUnicode() and change its result type (Py_UNICODE* => wchar_t*). The result will be a "borrowed reference", ie. you don't have to free the memory, it will be done when the Unicode string will be destroyed (by Py_DECREF).
But this is almost the same as PyUnicode_AsWideCharString, right?
You have to free the memory for PyUnicode_AsWideCharString().
That's why I said "almost". I don't think it's a good idea to add this function, for two reasons: - the unicode API is already big enough, we don't need redundant functions with differing refcount behaviours - the internal wchar_t representation is certainly meant to disappear in the long term; adding an API which *relies* on that representation is silly, especially after we deliberately deprecated the Py_UNICODE APIs Regards Antoine.