From: Georg Brandl Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:39:00 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 73940 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~2851 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9cbb125d7d1020f312612c77e96ff76c20c6d1a3;p=python Merged revisions 73940 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r73940 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 12:37:38 +0200 (Sa, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line #6430: add note about size of "u" type. ........ --- diff --git a/Doc/library/array.rst b/Doc/library/array.rst index 200277fe84..78c433d112 100644 --- a/Doc/library/array.rst +++ b/Doc/library/array.rst @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ 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 | +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ @@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ 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.