On May 4, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Nicholas Bastin wrote: >> "This type represents the storage type which is used by Python >> internally as the basis for holding Unicode ordinals. Extension >> module >> developers should make no assumptions about the size of this type on >> any given platform." > > But people want to know "Is Python's Unicode 16-bit or 32-bit?" > So the documentation should explicitly say "it depends".
The important piece of information is that it is not guaranteed to be a particular one of those sizes. Once you can't guarantee the size, no one really cares what size it is. The documentation should discourage developers from attempting to manipulate Py_UNICODE directly, which, other than trivia, is the only reason why someone would care what size the internal representation is. -- 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
