[python-win32] python3 and extended mapi

Paul_Koning at Dell.com Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Mon Jun 9 20:09:59 CEST 2014


On Jun 9, 2014, at 9:07 AM, Christian K. <ckkart at hoc.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was very pleased to see that retrieving properties of a MAPI object yields
> either a <str> or <bytes> type depending on whether the _A or _W property
> was queried …

Really?  That seems strange.  As I recall, the *_W APIs are “wide character” ones.  So in Python 3, they should both map to <str> type.  <bytes> applies only to non-text data.

	paul


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