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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Mar 22 20:01:17 EDT 2019


Serhiy Storchaka 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.

Ah, I see. It would be helpful if the array module docs made that clear. At one point the 3.x docs said that it depended on whether you had a wide or narrow unicode Python build, which confused me, because I thought that distinction had gone away in Python 3.

But we can add a new code, e.g. 'U', for UCS4.

+1.

-- Greg



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