Compile Python 3 interpreter to force 2-byte unicode

nospam.nospam.Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Nov 25 16:12:00 EST 2017


On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:05 AM,  <wojtek.mula at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, my goal is to obtain an interpreter that internally
> uses UCS-2. Such a simple code should print 65535:
>
>   import sys
>   print sys.maxunicode
>
> This is enabled in Windows, but I want the same in Linux.
> What options have I pass to the configure script?

Why do you want to? What useful value do you have in creating this buggy
interpreter? Ever since Python 3.3, that has simply not been an option. The bug
 has been solved.

ChrisA




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