Yesterday I found a design problem in the array module. Travis Oliphant added a new typecode 'w' to the array module. 'w' is a wide unicode type that is guaranteed to be at least 4 bytes long. The 'u' typecode may be 2 bytes long.
Unfortunately his change removed 'u' as a possible typecode which makes it unnecessary hard to write code that works on Windows (UCS2 only) and Unix (UCS4 for most Linux distributions). I've written a patch that keeps 'u' in every build and adds 'w' as an alias for 'u' in UCS-4 builds only. It also introduces the new module variable typecodes which is a unicode string containing all valid typecodes. http://bugs.python.org/issue1268 Christian _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
