Patch #445762: Support --disable-unicode
- Do not compile unicodeobject, unicodectype, and unicodedata if Unicode is disabled
- check for Py_USING_UNICODE in all places that use Unicode functions
- disables unicode literals, and the builtin functions
- add the types.StringTypes list
- remove Unicode literals from most tests.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6bcf2e4..28f3492 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
What's New in Python 2.2a2?
===========================
+Build
+
+- configure supports a new option --enable-unicode, with the values
+ ucs2 and ucs4 (new in 2.2a1). With --disable-unicode, the Unicode
+ type and supporting code is completely removed from the interpreter.
+
Tools
- The new Tools/scripts/cleanfuture.py can be used to automatically
@@ -57,6 +63,12 @@
sure to check the Unicode width compatibility in their extensions by
using at least one of the mangled Unicode APIs in the extension.
+- Two new flags METH_NOARGS and METH_O are available in method definition
+ tables to simplify implementation of methods with no arguments and a
+ single untyped argument. Calling such methods is more efficient than
+ calling corresponding METH_VARARGS methods. METH_OLDARGS is now
+ deprecated.
+
Windows
- "import module" now compiles module.pyw if it exists and nothing else
@@ -90,12 +102,6 @@
(These warnings currently don't conform to the warnings framework of
PEP 230; we intend to fix this in 2.2a2.)
-- Two new flags METH_NOARGS and METH_O are available in method definition
- tables to simplify implementation of methods with no arguments and a
- single untyped argument. Calling such methods is more efficient than
- calling corresponding METH_VARARGS methods. METH_OLDARGS is now
- deprecated.
-
- The UTF-16 codec was modified to be more RFC compliant. It will now
only remove BOM characters at the start of the string and then
only if running in native mode (UTF-16-LE and -BE won't remove a