> I believe the macro should be removed, as Python currently assumes Unicode
> APIs are available in a number of places.
My +1 for removal. Even 2.5 cannot be compiled without this macro, probably
no one is using this.
> This consistent with the versions
> of Windows Python currently supports. It is possible that patches would
be
> accepted which enable Python to be built without this functionality - in
> which case the next-best behavior would probably be to convert Unicode to
> MBCS encoded strings and call the *A versions of the API. Looking at the
> history for posixmodule.c etc will offer some clues as to how this could
> best be done.
One problem with removal, PyArg_ParseTuple doesn't have option to convert
to unicode (like "et" exists for unicode -> 8bit char buffer), so it's
harder to
report argument error.
>>> os.rename(4, 2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: rename() argument 1 must be string, not int
/* After removal of *A win32 APIs */
if (PyArg_ParseTuple("OO:rename", &o1, &o2)) {
convert_to_unicode(&o1); /* if these methods failed, should we report
same error above
convert_to_unicode(&o2); * by ourselves? */
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