Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
> How would it work? We would have to add various unions to the
> PyUnicode_Object definition?
No, you'd just need a temporary union defined in unicodeobject.c that would
look something like:
typedef union { unsigned long v; char s[SIZEOF_LONG]; } U;
(with better choices of names). Python/dtoa.c does a similar thing to read /
write the pieces of a C double using integers safely.
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