[Python-Dev] Chose a name for a "get unicode as wide character, borrowed reference" function

[Victor Stinner]

Hi,

With the PEP 393, the Py_UNICODE is now deprecated and scheduled for removal 
in Python 4. PyUnicode_AsUnicode() and PyUnicode_AsUnicodeAndSize() functions 
are still commonly used on Windows to get the string as wchar_t* without 
having to care of freeing the memory: it's a borrowed reference (pointer).

I would like to add a new PyUnicode_AsWideChar() function which would return 
the borrowed reference, exactly as PyUnicode_AsUnicode(). The problem is that 
"PyUnicode_AsWideChar" already exists in Python 3.2, as 
PyUnicode_AsWideCharString.

Do you have an suggestion for a name of such function?

PyUnicode_AsWideCharBorrowed?
PyUnicode_AsFastWideChar?
PyUnicode_ToWideChar?
PyUnicode_AsWchar_t?

Victor