[Python-Dev] Unicode exception indexing (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Nov 3 22:43:30 CET 2011

Am 03.11.2011 22:19, schrieb Terry Reedy:

On 11/3/2011 3:16 PM, Victor Stinner wrote:

Le jeudi 3 novembre 2011 18:14:42, martin at v.loewis.de a écrit :

There is a backwards compatibility issue with PEP 393 and Unicode exceptions: the start and end indices: are they PyUNICODE indices, or code point indices? I had the impression that we were abolishing the wide versus narrow build difference and that this issue would disappear. I must have missed something.

Most certainly. The Py_UNICODE type continues to exist for backwards compatibility. It is now always a typedef for wchar_t, which makes it a 16-bit type on Windows.

Regards, Martin

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