Message105286
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
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> Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
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> I propose a different approach:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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2010-05-08 13:15:30 | lemburg | set | recipients:
+ lemburg, gvanrossum, loewis, zooko, scoder, vstinner, stutzbach, r.david.murray |
2010-05-08 13:15:28 | lemburg | link | issue8654 messages |
2010-05-08 13:15:28 | lemburg | create | |
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