Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Current code assumes that PyUnicode_DATA() is aligned to PyUnicode_KIND() bytes. If this is not true on some platform it will be easer to add a padding than rewrite a code. A lot of code depends on this assumption. See also issue14422.
I afraid that proposed patch may slow down a search. ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19537> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com