abhi wrote: > Now I want to utf-16 so I am trying to use the first one, but it is > giving back NULL in case of PyObject is already Unicode type which is > expected. What puzzles me is that PyUnicode_FromObject(PyObject *obj) > is passing irrespective of type of PyObject. The API says it is > Shortcut for PyUnicode_FromEncodedObject(obj, NULL, "strict") but if I > use that, it returns NULL where as PyUnicode_FromObject works. > > Is there any way by which I can take in any PyObject and convert it to > utf-16 object? Any help is appreciated.
Use PyUnicode_FromObject() to convert the (non-string) object to a unicode object, then encode the unicode object as UTF-16 using the respecive functions in the codecs API (see the bottom of the C-API docs page for the unicode object). Note, however, that you will not succeed to convert a byte string to the corresponding unicode string using PyUnicode_FromObject(), except in the simple case where the string is ASCII encoded. Doing this right requires explicit decoding using a byte encoding that you must specify (again, see the codecs API). Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
