[Python-Dev] New Py_UNICODE doc

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Nicholas Bastin wrote:
> The important piece of information is that it is not guaranteed to be a
> particular one of those sizes.  Once you can't guarantee the size, no
> one really cares what size it is.

Please trust many years of experience: This is just not true. People
do care, and they want to know. If we tell them "it depends", they
ask "how can I find out".

> The documentation should discourage
> developers from attempting to manipulate Py_UNICODE directly, which,
> other than trivia, is the only reason why someone would care what size
> the internal representation is.

Why is that? Of *course* people will have to manipulate Py_UNICODE*
buffers directly. What else can they use?

Regards,
Martin