[Python-Dev] RE: [Zope-Coders] core dump in Zope 2.7 test suite

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Tim Peters" <tim at zope.com> writes:

> Or is there an implicit assumption that Py_UNICODE is always an
> unsigned type (in which case, why isn't the literal 256U?

Likely, the author of the code was subconsciously assuming
so. However, that assumption is invalid, and sharing should only
happen for ordinals in range(256).

Regards,
Martin