[python-win32] python3 and extended mapi

[Christian K.]

 <Paul_Koning <at> Dell.com> writes:

> 
> 
> 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.

At least for text properties like e.g. PR_SUBJECT_A / _W the former returns
a mbcs encoded "string", i.e. of bytes type and the latter a 2-byte unicode
string. Binary properties are always returned as bytes in contrast to
earlier when using pyrhon2.

Chrisrian