[Python-Dev] Replacement for array.array('u')? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Mar 22 07:33:01 EDT 2019

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:27:08 +0200 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

22.03.19 09:31, Greg Ewing пише: > A poster on comp.lang.python is asking about array.array('u'). > He wants an efficient mutable collection of unicode characters > that can be initialised from a string. > > According to the docs, the 'u' code is deprecated and will be > removed in 4.0, but no alternative is suggested. > > Why is this being deprecated, instead of keeping it and making > it always 32 bits? It seems like useful functionality that can't > be easily obtained another way.

Making it always 32 bits would be compatibility breaking change. Currently array('u') represents the wchart string, and many API on Windows require it.

The question is: why would you use a array.array() with a Windows C API?

Regards

Antoine.

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