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Sat Oct 28 21:24:55 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069624.html

Travis E. Oliphant schrieb:
> In this case, the 'kind' does not specify how large the data-type is. 
> You can have 'u1', 'u2', 'u4', etc.
> 
> The same is true with Unicode.  You can have 10-character unicode 
> elements, 20-character, etc.  But, we have to be clear about what a 
> "character" is in the data-format.

That is certainly confusing. In u1, u2, u4, the digit seems to indicate
the size of a single value (1 byte, 2 bytes, 4 bytes). Right? Yet,
in U20, it does *not* indicate the size of a single value but of an
array? And then, it's not the size, but the number of elements?

Regards,
Martin

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