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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/array.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/array.rst b/Doc/library/array.rst index 3b247b7700..f48bf06d9b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/array.rst +++ b/Doc/library/array.rst @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ defined: +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ | ``'B'`` | unsigned char | int | 1 | +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ -| ``'u'`` | Py_UNICODE | Unicode character | 2 | +| ``'u'`` | Py_UNICODE | Unicode character | 2 (see note) | +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ | ``'h'`` | signed short | int | 2 | +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ @@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ defined: | ``'d'`` | double | float | 8 | +-----------+----------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ +.. note:: + + The ``'u'`` typecode corresponds to Python's unicode character. On narrow + Unicode builds this is 2-bytes, on wide builds this is 4-bytes. + The actual representation of values is determined by the machine architecture (strictly speaking, by the C implementation). The actual size can be accessed through the :attr:`itemsize` attribute. The values stored for ``'L'`` and |