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

[John Machin]

19/05/2002 11:25:26 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> wrote:

>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).
>


I sincerely hope that you are mistaken in your belief that UCS-2 is so used.