22.03.19 09:31, Greg Ewing пише:
A poster on comp.lang.python is asking about array.array('u').
He wants an efficient mutable collection of unicode characters
that can be initialised from a string.

According to the docs, the 'u' code is deprecated and will be
removed in 4.0, but no alternative is suggested.

Why is this being deprecated, instead of keeping it and making
it always 32 bits? It seems like useful functionality that can't
be easily obtained another way.

Making it always 32 bits would be compatibility breaking change. Currently array('u') represents the wchar_t string, and many API on Windows require it.

But we can add a new code, e.g. 'U', for UCS4.

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