[Python-Dev] C API doc fix
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Mon Oct 10 21:09:58 CEST 2005
Robey Pointer wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2005, at 12:06, Steven Bethard wrote:
>
>
>>On 9/29/05, Robey Pointer <robey at lag.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Yesterday I ran into a bug in the C API docs. The top of this page:
>>>
>>> http://docs.python.org/api/unicodeObjects.html
>>>
>>>says:
>>>
>>>Py_UNICODE
>>> This type represents a 16-bit unsigned storage type which is
>>>used by Python internally as basis for holding Unicode ordinals. On
>>>platforms where wchar_t is available and also has 16-bits, Py_UNICODE
>>>is a typedef alias for wchar_t to enhance native platform
>>>compatibility. On all other platforms, Py_UNICODE is a typedef alias
>>>for unsigned short.
>>>
>>
>>I believe this is the same issue that was brought up in May[1]. My
>>impression was that people could not agree on a documentation patch.
FYI, I've fixed the Py_UNICODE description now.
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