[Python-Dev] getting the UCS-2 representation of a unicode object

[M.-A. Lemburg]

John Machin wrote:
> 19/05/2002 11:25:26 PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Andreas Jung wrote:
>>
>>>Py_BuildValue() allows the usage of "u" or "u#" to convert UCS-2
>>>data into a Python unicode object, however Py_ParseTuple() converts
>>>a unicode object to UTF-16. Is this an error in the documentation
>>>or why is there a asymmmetry in the API?
>>
>>Sounds like a documentation bug: it should be UCS-2 since that's
>>what's used as internal data represenation in narrow Unicode
>>builds (the default).
>>
> 
> 
> 
> I sincerely hope that you are mistaken in your belief that 
 > UCS-2 is so used.

I should know...

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