Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: STINNER Victor wrote: > > STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@gmail.com> added the comment: > > The Py_UNICODE* type is deprecated but since Python 3.3, Py_UNICODE=wchar_t > and wchar_t* is a common type on Windows. PyUnicode_AsUnicodeAndSize() is > used to encode Python strings to call Windows functions. > > PyUnicode_AsUnicodeAndSize() is preferred over PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() > because PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() stores the result in the Unicode string > and the Unicode string releases the memory automatically later. Calling > PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() twice on the same string avoids also the need of > encoding the string twice because the result is cached. > > I proposed to add a new function using wchar_*t and storing the result in the > Unicode string, but the idea was rejected. I don't remember why.
Could you please clarify what you actually intend to do ? Which function do you want to remove and why ? The title and description of this ticket don't match :-) ---------- nosy: +lemburg _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13608> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
