On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Kurt Mueller <kurt.alfred.muel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I understand: narrow build is UCS2, wide build is UCS4 > - In a UCS2 build each character of an Unicode string uses 16 Bits and has > code points from U-0000..U-FFFF (0..65535) > - In a UCS4 build each character of an Unicode string uses 32 Bits and has > code points from U-00000000..U-0010FFFF (0..1114111)
Pretty much. Narrow builds are buggy, so as much as possible, you want to avoid using them. Ideally, use Python 3.3 or newer, where the distinction doesn't exist - all builds are functionally like wide builds, with memory usage even better than narrow builds (they'll use 8 bits per character if it's possible). As a general rule, precompiled Python for Windows is usually a narrow build, and Python distributions for Linux are usually wide builds. (I don't know about Mac OS builds.) You can test any Python by checking out sys.maxunicode - it'll be 65535 on a narrow build, or 1114111 on wide builds (because that's the maximum codepoint defined by Unicode - U+10FFFF - as it's the highest number that can be represented in UTF-16). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
