[Python-Dev] import screwiness

[Tim Peters]

[Neal]
>>> Then later on we do PyString_GET_SIZE and PyString_AS_STRING.  That doesn't
>>> work, does it?  What am I missing?

[Tim]
>> The conceptual type of the object returned by PyUnicode_Encode().

[Neal]
> Phew, I sure am glad I was missing that.  :-)
>
> I saw as the first line in PyUnicode_Encode that it was creating a
> unicode string.  I then went to look at PyString_Encode and saw the
> same.  There I realized that the string created initially wasn't the
> string returned (it's the object from _AsEncodedString).  Which
> naturally tells me what you just did.  Thanks.

Good!  You're welcome.

>  Now can you fix test_subprocess hanging? :-)

Sure:  break it on Windows and I'll fix it tonight :-)

> Please, I'll even buy you lunch and a coke at the sprints at Google.  You
> are coming, right?

Sorry, doesn't look like it.  I'm living on investment income this
year, and the markets haven't been kind so far -- I don't want to go
more in the hole than is truly necessary.  I even switched from
Campbell's soup to the store generic brand last week ;-)