[Python-Dev] New Py_UNICODE doc

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>>Hmm, looking at the configure.in script, it seems you're right.
>>I wonder why this weird dependency on TCL was added.
> 
> 
> If Python is configured for UCS-2, and Tcl for UCS-4, then
> Tkinter would not work out of the box. Hence the weird dependency.

I believe that it would be more appropriate to adjust the _tkinter
module to adapt to the TCL Unicode size rather than
forcing the complete Python system to adapt to TCL - I don't
really see the point in an optional extension module
defining the default for the interpreter core.

At the very least, this should be a user controlled option.

Otherwise, we might as well use sizeof(wchar_t) as basis
for the default Unicode size. This at least, would be
a much more reasonable choice than whatever TCL uses.

-
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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