[Python-Dev] New Py_UNICODE doc

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun May 8 19:44:51 CEST 2005


Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Fair enough.  The original point is that the documentation is unclear
> about what a Py_UNICODE[] contains.  I deduced that it contains either
> UCS2 or UCS4 and implemented accordingly.  Not only did I guess wrong,
> but others will probably guess wrong too.  Something in the docs needs
> to spell this out.

Again, patches are welcome. I was opposed to Nick's proposed changes,
since they explicitly said that you are not supposed to know what
is in a Py_UNICODE. Integrating the essence of PEP 261 into the
main documentation would be a worthwhile task.

Regards,
Martin



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