"Martin v. L?wis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > I think it would be nice for Python3.3 to implement the PEP-3118 > > suggestion: > > > > 'c' -> UCS1 > > > > 'u' -> UCS2 > > > > 'w' -> UCS4 > > What is the use case for these format codes?
Unfortunately I've only worked with UTF-8 so far and I'm not too familiar with UCS2 and UCS4. *If* the arrays that Victor mentioned give one character per array location, then memoryview(str) could be used for zero-copy slicing etc. The main reason why I raised the issue is this: If Python-3.3 is shipped with 'u' -> UCS4 in the array module and *then* someone figures out that the above format codes are a great idea, we'd be stuck with yet another format code incompatibility. Stefan Krah _______________________________________________ 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
