[Python-Dev] getting the UCS-2 representation of a unicode object

[Andreas Jung]

Sounds reasonable..but since Py_ParseTuple() only applies to function
arguments
it can not be used to convert a unicode object to UCS-2. So what is the
easiest
way to get the UCS-2 representation? PyUnicode_AS_DATA() returns for
u'computer'
a char * with strlen()==1, however PyUnicode_GET_DATA_SIZE() on the
same string returns 16 (looks fine for the two byes encoding of UCS-2). Am I
missing
something?

Andreas


----- Original Message -----
From: "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com>
To: "Andreas Jung" <andreas@andreas-jung.com>
Cc: <python-dev@python.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 09:25
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] getting the UCS-2 representation of a unicode
object


> Andreas Jung wrote:
> > Py_BuildValue() allows the usage of "u" or "u#" to convert UCS-2
> > data into a Python unicode object, however Py_ParseTuple() converts
> > a unicode object to UTF-16. Is this an error in the documentation
> > or why is there a asymmmetry in the API?
>
> Sounds like a documentation bug: it should be UCS-2 since that's
> what's used as internal data represenation in narrow Unicode
> builds (the default).
>
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