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

Martin (gzlist) gzlist at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 25 11:12:00 EDT 2019

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 16:12, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:

On 22Mar2019 0433, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > The question is: why would you use a array.array() with a Windows C API? I started replying to this with a whole lot of examples, and eventually convinced myself that you wouldn't (or shouldn't). That said, I see value in having a type for array/struct/memoryview that "is the same size as wchart", since that will avoid people having to guess (the docs for array in particular are deliberately vague about the actual size of the various types).

This is pretty much what ctypes provides for dealing with unicode?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.create_unicode_buffer

Seems a fine place to have things that help with win32 api interactions.

Martin

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