On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Greg Ewing <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> So, my proposal >> is this: let the user specify via a compiler directive an encoding to >> use for all conversions. Cython could then transparently and >> efficiently handle all char* <-> str (a.k.a. unicode) encodings > > There's another kind of problem with implicit conversion from > str to char * in Py3: for any encoding other than utf8, it requires > allocating memory, and then there's the issue of who owns it > and how it gets deallocated. >
Sorry, Greg, I got lost. It seems I still have things to learn in Py3. How do you avoid the memory allocation in the case of UTF-8 ? -- Lisandro Dalcín --------------- Centro Internacional de Métodos Computacionales en Ingeniería (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Industria Química (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) PTLC - Güemes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594 _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
