[Python-Dev] r84430 - in python/branches/py3k: Include/unicodeobject.h Objects/unicodeobject.c (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 13:02:50 CEST 2010

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:01 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

About PyUnicodestrdup() (PyUnicodeAsUnicodeCopy): I don't know. It is possible to rewrite it in few lines. Why don't you want to add them to the public API? For my work, it doesn't matter if it's public or not. This function uses PyMemxxx API, I don't know if a third part library would like to rely on PyMemxxx. This will have to be documented (see PEP 384 for some reasoning on malloc() use in DLLs).

PyUnicode_AsUnicodeCopy is indeed a better name.

As far as the need to call PyMem_Free goes, a similar requirement already exists for argument parsing via es and es# (see http://docs.python.org/dev/c-api/arg.html#strings-and-buffers), so just documenting it is fine.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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