[Python-Dev] Unicode patches checked in (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:57:13 +0100

Vladimir Marangozov wrote:

M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > Note that unicodedata is only needed by programs which do > a lot of Unicode manipulations and in the future probably > by some codecs too. Perhaps it would make sense to move the Unicode database on the Python side (write it in Python)? Or init the database dynamically in the unicodedata module on import? It's quite big, so if it's possible to avoid the static declaration (and if the unicodata module is enabled by default), I'd vote for a dynamic initialization of the database from reference (Python ?) file(s).

The unicodedatabase module contains the Unicode database as static C data - this makes it shareable among (Python) processes.

Python modules don't provide this feature: instead a dictionary would have to be built on import which would increase the heap size considerably. Those dicts would not be shareable.

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