Message 338607 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

I think the problem is still whether to use 'u' == UCS2 and 'w' == UCS4 like in PEP-3118.

For the project I'm currently working on I'd need these for buffer exports:

from xnd import * x = xnd(["abc", "xyz"], dtype="fixed_string(10, 'utf16')") y = xnd(["abc", "xyz"], dtype="fixed_string(10, 'utf32')")

memoryview(x) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ValueError: type is not supported by the buffer protocol

The use case is not an array that represents a single utf16 string, but an array of fixed strings with different encodings.

So x would be exported with format 'u' and y with format 'w'.