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Author lemburg
Recipients gvanrossum, lemburg, loewis, r.david.murray, scoder, stutzbach, vstinner, zooko
Date 2010-05-08.13:15:28
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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
> Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
> 
> I propose a different approach:
> 
> 1. add a flag to PyModuleDef, indicating whether the module was built in UCS-2 or UCS-4 mode. Then let the interpreter refuse the load the module, instead of having the dynamic linker do so.
> 2. provide a mode for the header files where Py_UNICODE is not defined. add another flag to PyModuleDef indicating whether that mode was used when compiling the extension.
> 
> Module authors then can make a choice whether or not to refer to the Unicode internal representation in their module. If they do, a UCS-2 version won't load into a UCS-4 interpreter. If they don't refer to Py_UNICODE at all, the module can be used across the two modes.
> 
> There is a slight risk that a module may already crash before calling PyModule_Create. To prevent that, we need to specify that no Unicode API must be used before calling PyModule_Create.

+1

We could then get rid off the API renaming altogether.
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