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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-07-11 10:37:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-07-11 10:37:38 (GMT) |
| commit | 7750505d2d969676f74a5a189d30e9a41d77c503 (patch) | |
| tree | 28b199d5a73422bfed12404006d7738ed680d923 /Doc | |
| parent | 7c150bf904220c9280f4cc4d6c2d58128a48324b (diff) | |
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#6430: add note about size of "u" type.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/array.rst b/Doc/library/array.rst index 3b247b7..f48bf06 100644 --- a/Doc/library/array.rst +++ b/Doc/library/array.rst @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ defined: +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ | ``'B'`` | unsigned char | int | 1 | +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ -| ``'u'`` | Py_UNICODE | Unicode character | 2 | +| ``'u'`` | Py_UNICODE | Unicode character | 2 (see note) | +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ | ``'h'`` | signed short | int | 2 | +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ defined: | ``'d'`` | double | float | 8 | +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ +.. note:: + + The ``'u'`` typecode corresponds to Python's unicode character. On narrow + Unicode builds this is 2-bytes, on wide builds this is 4-bytes. + The actual representation of values is determined by the machine architecture (strictly speaking, by the C implementation). The actual size can be accessed through the :attr:`itemsize` attribute. The values stored for ``'L'`` and |