[Python-Dev] PEP: Adding data-type objects to Python

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Sat Oct 28 20:10:31 CEST 2006


Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> PEP: <unassigned>
>>> Title: Adding data-type objects to the standard library
>>>   Attributes
>>>
>>>      kind      --  returns the basic "kind" of the data-type. The basic kinds
>>>                      are:
>>>                        't' - bit, 
>>>                        'b' - bool, 
>>>                        'i' - signed integer, 
>>>                        'u' - unsigned integer,
>>>                        'f' - floating point,                  
>>>                        'c' - complex floating point, 
>>>                        'S' - string (fixed-length sequence of char),
>>>                        'U' - fixed length sequence of UCS4,
>> Shouldn't this read "fixed length sequence of Unicode" ?!
>> The underlying code unit format (UCS2 and UCS4) depends on the
>> Python version.
> 
> Well, in NumPy 'U' always means UCS4.  So, I just copied that over.  See 
> my questions at the bottom which talk about how to handle this.  A 
> data-format does not necessarily have to correspond to something Python 
> represents with an Object.

Ok, but why are you being specific about UCS4 (which is an internal
storage format), while you are not specific about e.g. the
internal bit size of the integers (which could be 32 or 64 bit) ?

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