[Orbit-python-list] Wchar/wstring + Python 2

[Roland M. <ma...@ec...>]

  Hi all,

  Just to avoid duplicating efforts: work is in progress here on the
wide char / wide string support in ORBit-Python.  Nothing has been
written yet, but I'm experimenting on the Python Unicode objects and
it shouldn't be that much of a hassle to handle wchar and wstring in
the marshalling/demarshalling.  Could be a bit trickier as far as
wchar/wstring constants are specified in the IDL, but I haven't
started to look into that, so I'm not sure.  In any case, don't expect
anything before a few days / weeks (maybe around the Python 2.0b1
release if I'm lucky).

  Work is based on current Python developement branch (as found on the
Sourceforge CVS), and a preliminary remark is this: ORBit-Python does
not compile with Python 2.  There's a PyMem_XDEL somewhere
(src/server.c maybe), and apparently that macro or function is no
more.  Replacing it by a PyMem_DEL did not explode at me right away,
but I wouldn't recommend that anyone do the same replacement without
further testing.

  Stay tuned...

Roland.
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