[issue22108] python c api wchar_t*/char* passing contradiction

[Jonas Jelten]

New submission from Jonas Jelten:

The documentation and the code example at
https://docs.python.org/3.5/extending/embedding.html#very-high-level-embedding

#include <Python.h>

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  Py_SetProgramName(argv[0]);  /* optional but recommended */
  Py_Initialize();
  PyRun_SimpleString("from time import time,ctime\n"
                     "print('Today is', ctime(time()))\n");
  Py_Finalize();
  return 0;
}

contradicts the actual implementation of the code:
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Include/pythonrun.h#l25

which leads to compiler errors. To fix them, ugly wchar_t to char conversions are needed.

Also, I was hoping, Python 3.3 finally switched from wchar_t to char and UTF-8.
at least that's how I understood PEP 393 http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0393/

see also:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21591908/python-3-3-c-string-handling-wchar-t-vs-char


=> Are the docs wrong (which i hope are not, the example is straightforward and simple-stupid with a char*),
or is cpython wrong?

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components: Unicode
messages: 224327
nosy: ezio.melotti, haypo, thejj
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: python c api wchar_t*/char* passing contradiction
type: compile error
versions: Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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