Why is array.array('u') deprecated?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 8 May 2015 07:14 pm, jonathan.slenders at gmail.com wrote:

> Why is array.array('u') deprecated?
> 
> Will we get an alternative for a character array or mutable unicode
> string?


Good question.

Of the three main encodings for Unicode, two are variable-width: 

* UTF-8 uses 1-4 bytes per character 
* UTF-16 uses 2 or 4 bytes per character

while UTF-32 is fixed-width (4 bytes per character). So you could try faking
it with a 32-bit array and filling it with string.encode('utf-32').



-- 
Steven