Problems in Using C-API for Unicode handling

[Scott David Daniels]

abhi wrote:
> On Jan 13, 12:17 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
>> abhi wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>     I am trying to handle Unicode objects in C (Python 2.5.2)....
> ... I want to convert this explicitely to utf-16....
You are trying to get Unicode and UTF-16, whereas you should think
of those two as distinct.  UTF-16 is an encoded form (bytes) from
the abstract "Unicode is characters".  What you want in Python is:
     u'abc'.encode('UTF-16')
So look for something returning a string by invoking the decode method.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org