"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> -1 on always using wchar_t as well. Python's default is UCS2 and the >> stable ABI should not change that. > > It's not really Python's default. It is what configure.in does by > default. Python's default, on Linux, is UCS-4.
No, the default is UCS2 on all platforms and in configure.in. configure.in only uses UCS4 if it finds a TCL installation that happens to use UCS4 - for some reason I don't know :-) However, most Linux distros and more recently also some BSDs have switched over to using UCS4 for their distribution versions of Python. >> I also think that this information is not relevant for the stable >> ABI: Extensions that want to stick to the stable ABI should really >> not have to know whether Py_UNICODE maps to wchar_t or not. If they >> want to interface to a local whcar_t type they can use the conversion >> APIs we have for that in the Unicode API: PyUnicode_FromWideChar() >> and PyUnicode_AsWideChar(). > > Ok. I'm fine with excluding Py_UNICODE from the stable ABI. However, > I think in the long run, I guess more support for wchar_t will then > be needed in the API, e.g. more convenient argument parsing. Sure, we could add that. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 07 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2010-08-19: Released mxODBC 3.1.0 http://python.egenix.com/ 2010-09-15: DZUG Tagung, Dresden, Germany 7 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ 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
