regenerating unicodedata for py2.7 using py3 makeunicodedata.py?

Vlastimil Brom vlastimil.brom at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 19:10:47 EST 2010


2010/11/13 Martin v. Loewis <martin at v.loewis.de>:
>> Is this intended or even guaranteed for these generated files to be
>> compatible across py2.7 and py3, or am I going to be bitten by some
>> less obvious issues later?
>
> It works because the generated files are just arrays of structures,
> and these structures are the same in 2.7 and 3.2. However, there is
> no guarantee about this property: you will need to check for changes
> to unicodedata.c to see whether they may affect compatibility.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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>

Thanks for the confirmation Martin!

Do you think, it the mentioned omission of the character names of some
CJK ranges in unicodedata intended, or should it be reported to the
tracker?

Regards,
   Vlastimil Brom



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