Re: [Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-10-10 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Robey Pointer wrote: > On 29 Sep 2005, at 12:06, Steven Bethard wrote: > > >>On 9/29/05, Robey Pointer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Yesterday I ran into a bug in the C API docs. The top of this page: >>> >>> http://docs.python.org/api/unicodeObjects.html >>> >>>says: >>> >>>Py_UNICODE

Re: [Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-10-10 Thread Robey Pointer
On 29 Sep 2005, at 12:06, Steven Bethard wrote: > On 9/29/05, Robey Pointer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yesterday I ran into a bug in the C API docs. The top of this page: >> >> http://docs.python.org/api/unicodeObjects.html >> >> says: >> >> Py_UNICODE >> This type represents a 16

Re: [Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-10-02 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Jim Jewett wrote: > > > Py_UNICODE > Python uses this type to store Unicode ordinals. It is > typically a typedef alias, but the underlying type -- and > the size of that type -- varies across different systems. > I think I objected to such a formulation, requesting that t

[Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-09-30 Thread Jim Jewett
On 9/29/05, Robey Pointer wrote: > Yesterday I ran into a bug in the C API docs. The top of this page: > > http://docs.python.org/api/unicodeObjects.html > > says: > > Py_UNICODE > This type represents a 16-bit unsigned storage type which is > used by Python internally as basis for hold

Re: [Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-09-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > >>* Unicode variant (UCS2, UCS4) > > > don't forget the "Py_UNICODE is wchar_t" subvariant. True, but that's not relevant for binary compatibility of Python package (at least not AFAIK). UCS2 vs. UCS4 matters because the two versions use and exp

Re: [Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-09-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Bob Ippolito wrote: > On Sep 29, 2005, at 3:53 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > >>Perhaps a flag that fires up Python and runs platform.py >>would help too. > > > python -mplatform Cool :-) Now we only need to add some more information to it (like e.g. the Unicode variant). -- Marc-Andre Lembur

Re: [Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-09-29 Thread Fredrik Lundh
M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > * Unicode variant (UCS2, UCS4) don't forget the "Py_UNICODE is wchar_t" subvariant. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/ma

Re: [Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-09-29 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Sep 29, 2005, at 3:53 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > Perhaps a flag that fires up Python and runs platform.py > would help too. python -mplatform -bob ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev

Re: [Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-09-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Steven Bethard wrote: > On 9/29/05, Robey Pointer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Yesterday I ran into a bug in the C API docs. The top of this page: >> >> http://docs.python.org/api/unicodeObjects.html >> >>says: >> >>Py_UNICODE >> This type represents a 16-bit unsigned storage type which

Re: [Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-09-29 Thread Steven Bethard
On 9/29/05, Robey Pointer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday I ran into a bug in the C API docs. The top of this page: > > http://docs.python.org/api/unicodeObjects.html > > says: > > Py_UNICODE > This type represents a 16-bit unsigned storage type which is > used by Python internall

[Python-Dev] C API doc fix

2005-09-29 Thread Robey Pointer
Yesterday I ran into a bug in the C API docs. The top of this page: http://docs.python.org/api/unicodeObjects.html says: Py_UNICODE This type represents a 16-bit unsigned storage type which is used by Python internally as basis for holding Unicode ordinals. On platforms where wcha