[issue32354] Unclear intention of deprecating Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER / Py_UNICODE_TOUPPER

STINNER Victor added the comment: See also bpo-38604: Schedule Py_UNICODE API removal. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue32354] Unclear intention of deprecating Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER / Py_UNICODE_TOUPPER

Campbell Barton added the comment: Thanks for the info, in that case will there be a way to do this from the CPython API which can work with raw strings? (utf8, wchat_t or similar types), that doesn't require the GIL and alloc/free of PyObjects. --

[issue32354] Unclear intention of deprecating Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER / Py_UNICODE_TOUPPER

STINNER Victor added the comment: Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER / Py_UNICODE_TOUPPER *API* doesn't respect the latest Unicode standard. For example, it doesn't support this operation: >>> "ß".upper() 'SS' -- ___ Python tracker

[issue32354] Unclear intention of deprecating Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER / Py_UNICODE_TOUPPER

New submission from Campbell Barton : Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER / Py_UNICODE_TOUPPER are marked as deprecated in the docs. https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/unicode.html?highlight=py_unicode_tolower#c.Py_UNICODE_TOLOWER Someone submitted a patch to our project which uses these.