On May 8, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Shane Hathaway wrote: >> Fair enough. The original point is that the documentation is unclear >> about what a Py_UNICODE[] contains. I deduced that it contains either >> UCS2 or UCS4 and implemented accordingly. Not only did I guess wrong, >> but others will probably guess wrong too. Something in the docs needs >> to spell this out. > > Again, patches are welcome. I was opposed to Nick's proposed changes, > since they explicitly said that you are not supposed to know what > is in a Py_UNICODE. Integrating the essence of PEP 261 into the > main documentation would be a worthwhile task.
You can't possibly assume you know specifically what's in a Py_UNICODE in any given python installation. If someone thinks this statement is untrue, please explain why. I realize you might not *want* that to be true, but it is. Users are free to configure their python however they desire, and if that means --enable-unicode=ucs2 on RH9, then that is perfectly valid. -- Nick _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
