[Python-Dev] Py_UNICODE madness

[Guido van Rossum]

I really don't know. Effbot, MvL and/or MAL should know.

On 5/3/05, Nicholas Bastin <nbastin at opnet.com> wrote:
> 
> On May 3, 2005, at 6:44 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > I think that documentation is wrong; AFAIK Py_UNICODE has always been
> > allowed to be either 16 or 32 bits, and the source code goes through
> > great lengths to make sure that you get a link error if you try to
> > combine extensions built with different assumptions about its size.
> 
> That makes PyUnicode_FromUnicode() a lot less useful.  Well, really,
> not useful at all.
> 
> You might suggest that PyUnicode_FromWideChar is more useful, but
> that's only true on platforms that support wchar_t.
> 
> Is there no universally supported way of moving buffers of unicode data
> (as common data types, like unsigned short, etc.) into Python from C?
> 
> --
> Nick
> 
> 


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