[Python-3000] string C API

[Greg Ewing]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Just try implementing comparison some time. You can end up implementing
> the same algorithm six times at least, once for each pair (1,1), (1,2),
> (1,4), (2,2), (2,4), (4,4).

#define UnicodeStringComparisonFunction(TYPE1, TYPE2) \
   /* code to implement it here */

UnicodeStringComparisonFunction(UCS1, UCS1)
UnicodeStringComparisonFunction(UCS1, UCS2)
UnicodeStringComparisonFunction(UCS1, UCS4)
UnicodeStringComparisonFunction(UCS2, UCS2)
UnicodeStringComparisonFunction(UCS2, UCS4)
UnicodeStringComparisonFunction(UCS4, UCS4)

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Greg