On May 4, 2005, at 1:39 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Nicholas Bastin wrote: >> On May 4, 2005, at 4:39 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>>> At the very least, if we can't guarantee the internal >>>> representation, then the PyUnicode_FromUnicode API needs to go >>>> away, and be replaced with something capable of transcoding various >>>> unicode inputs into the internal python representation. >>> >>> >>> We have PyUnicode_Decode() for that. PyUnicode_FromUnicode is >>> useful and meant for working directly on Py_UNICODE buffers. >> Is this API documented anywhere? (It's not in the Unicode Object >> section of the API doc). Also, this is quite inefficient if the >> source data is in UTF-16, because it appears that I'll have to >> transcode my data to utf-8 before I can pass it to this function, but >> I guess I'll have to live with that. > > Not at all. You pass in the pointer, the function does the rest:
Ah, I missed the codec registry lookup. Thanks. I'll change the Py_UNICODE doc, if anyone has a suggestion as to what to change it *to*... -- 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
