On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 4:38 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
> A poster on comp.lang.python is asking about array.array('u').
> He wants an efficient mutable collection of unicode characters
> that can be initialised from a string.
>
> According to the docs, the 'u' code is deprecated and will be
> removed in 4.0, but no alternative is suggested.
>
> Why is this being deprecated, instead of keeping it and making
> it always 32 bits? It seems like useful functionality that can't
> be easily obtained another way.
>I think it's because there are not much use cases found when implementing PEP 393. If there are use cases enough to keep it in stdlib, I'm OK about un-deprecate it and make it always 32bit (int32_t). -- Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
