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authorMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2002-01-09 16:21:27 (GMT)
committerMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2002-01-09 16:21:27 (GMT)
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Fixed "u#" parser marker to pass through Unicode objects as-is without
going through the buffer interface API. Added tests for this to the _testcapi module and updated docs.
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@@ -669,6 +669,8 @@ address you pass.
\item[\samp{u\#} (Unicode object) {[Py_UNICODE *, int]}]
This variant on \samp{u} stores into two C variables, the first one
a pointer to a Unicode data buffer, the second one its length.
+Non-Unicode objects are handled by interpreting their read buffer
+pointer as pointer to a Py_UNICODE array.
\item[\samp{es} (string, Unicode object or character buffer compatible
object) {[const char *encoding, char **buffer]}]