Message 168571 - Python tracker

Message168571

Author	pitrou
Recipients	Arfrever, georg.brandl, loewis, mark.dickinson, meador.inge, ncoghlan, pitrou, python-dev, skrah, vstinner
Date	2012-08-19.13:13:57
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> I guess the analogy with bytes objects is that UCS-2 code points can be > handled as 16-bit integer objects. > > If we're going to do a programmatic deprecation now, that's the only > alternative typecode currently available. Do we want to recommend that? Or > do we want to postpone programmatic deprecation until we add a 2-byte code > point type code for 3.4? I don't understand. If you want to handle 16-bit integers, you already have the "h" and "H" type codes.

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> I guess the analogy with bytes objects is that UCS-2 code points can be
> handled as 16-bit integer objects.
> 
> If we're going to do a programmatic deprecation now, that's the only
> alternative typecode currently available. Do we want to recommend that? Or
> do we want to postpone programmatic deprecation until we add a 2-byte code
> point type code for 3.4?

I don't understand. If you want to handle 16-bit integers, you already
have the "h" and "H" type codes.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-08-19 13:14:18	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, loewis, georg.brandl, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, vstinner, Arfrever, skrah, meador.inge, python-dev
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2012-08-19 13:13:57	pitrou	create