From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:37:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #6430: add note about size of "u" type.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7a1~797
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7750505d2d969676f74a5a189d30e9a41d77c503;p=python

#6430: add note about size of "u" type.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/array.rst b/Doc/library/array.rst
index 3b247b7700..f48bf06d9b 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