[Python-Dev] Py_UNICODE madness

[Nicholas Bastin]

On May 4, 2005, at 1:39 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> Nicholas Bastin wrote:
>> On May 4, 2005, at 4:39 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>>> At the very least, if we can't guarantee the internal 
>>>> representation, then the PyUnicode_FromUnicode API needs to go 
>>>> away, and be replaced with something capable of transcoding various 
>>>> unicode inputs into the internal python representation.
>>>
>>>
>>> We have PyUnicode_Decode() for that. PyUnicode_FromUnicode is
>>> useful and meant for working directly on Py_UNICODE buffers.
>> Is this API documented anywhere?  (It's not in the Unicode Object 
>> section of the API doc).  Also, this is quite inefficient if the 
>> source data is in UTF-16, because it appears that I'll have to 
>> transcode my data to utf-8 before I can pass it to this function, but 
>> I guess I'll have to live with that.
>
> Not at all. You pass in the pointer, the function does the rest:

Ah, I missed the codec registry lookup.  Thanks.

I'll change the Py_UNICODE doc, if anyone has a suggestion as to what 
to change it *to*...

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Nick