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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Mar 22 10:49:14 EDT 2019


On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 16:11:45 +0200 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

22.03.19 13:33, Antoine Pitrou пише: > On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:27:08 +0200 > Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote: >> 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?

I do not. But maybe it is used. And changing the width of the 'u' code would break such use case.

Right. But changing the width is not what I had in mind. Just keep it identical until we finally decide to remove it.

Regards

Antoine.



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