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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2020-11-12 14:38:13 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-11-12 14:38:13 (GMT)
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bpo-38823: Always build _ctypes with wchar_t (GH-23248)
It is no longer possible to build the _ctypes extension module without wchar_t type: remove CTYPES_UNICODE macro. Anyway, the wchar_t type is required to build Python.
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+It is no longer possible to build the ``_ctypes`` extension module without
+:c:type:`wchar_t` type: remove ``CTYPES_UNICODE`` macro. Anyway, the
+:c:type:`wchar_t` type is required to build Python. Patch by Victor Stinner.