[Python-Dev] PEP: Adding data-type objects to Python

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
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> PEP: <unassigned>
> Title: Adding data-type objects to the standard library
>   Attributes
> 
>      kind      --  returns the basic "kind" of the data-type. The basic kinds
>                      are:
>                        't' - bit, 
>                        'b' - bool, 
>                        'i' - signed integer, 
>                        'u' - unsigned integer,
>                        'f' - floating point,                  
>                        'c' - complex floating point, 
>                        'S' - string (fixed-length sequence of char),
>                        'U' - fixed length sequence of UCS4,

Shouldn't this read "fixed length sequence of Unicode" ?!
The underlying code unit format (UCS2 and UCS4) depends on the
Python version.

>                        'O' - pointer to PyObject,
>                        'V' - Void (anything else).

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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