[Python-Dev] New Py_UNICODE doc

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu May 5 00:03:37 CEST 2005


Nicholas Bastin wrote:
> "This type represents the storage type which is used by Python 
> internally as the basis for holding Unicode ordinals.  Extension module 
> developers should make no assumptions about the size of this type on 
> any given platform."

But people want to know "Is Python's Unicode 16-bit or 32-bit?"
So the documentation should explicitly say "it depends".

Regards,
Martin


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