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| 1 | bits shared by the stringobject and unicodeobject implementations (and | ||
| 2 | possibly other modules, in a not too distant future). | ||
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| 4 | the stuff in here is included into relevant places; see the individual | ||
| 5 | source files for details. | ||
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| 7 | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
| 8 | the following defines used by the different modules: | ||
| 9 | |||
| 10 | STRINGLIB_CHAR | ||
| 11 | |||
| 12 | the type used to hold a character (char or Py_UNICODE) | ||
| 13 | |||
| 14 | STRINGLIB_EMPTY | ||
| 15 | |||
| 16 | a PyObject representing the empty string | ||
| 17 | |||
| 18 | int STRINGLIB_CMP(STRINGLIB_CHAR*, STRINGLIB_CHAR*, Py_ssize_t) | ||
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| 20 | compares two strings. returns 0 if they match, and non-zero if not. | ||
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| 22 | Py_ssize_t STRINGLIB_LEN(PyObject*) | ||
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| 24 | returns the length of the given string object (which must be of the | ||
| 25 | right type) | ||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | PyObject* STRINGLIB_NEW(STRINGLIB_CHAR*, Py_ssize_t) | ||
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| 29 | creates a new string object | ||
| 30 | |||
| 31 | STRINGLIB_CHAR* STRINGLIB_STR(PyObject*) | ||
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| 33 | returns the pointer to the character data for the given string | ||
| 34 | object (which must be of the right type) | ||