[Python-Dev] Replacement for array.array('u')?

[Martin (gzlist)]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 16:12, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
>
> On 22Mar2019 0433, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > The question is: why would you use a array.array() with a Windows C API?
>
> I started replying to this with a whole lot of examples, and eventually
> convinced myself that you wouldn't (or shouldn't).
>
> That said, I see value in having a type for array/struct/memoryview that
> "is the same size as wchar_t", since that will avoid people having to
> guess (the docs for array in particular are deliberately vague about the
> actual size of the various types).

This is pretty much what ctypes provides for dealing with unicode?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.create_unicode_buffer

Seems a fine place to have things that help with win32 api interactions.

Martin