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| 1 | +bits shared by the stringobject and unicodeobject implementations (and | |
| 2 | +possibly other modules, in a not too distant future). | |
| 3 | + | |
| 4 | +the stuff in here is included into relevant places; see the individual | |
| 5 | +source files for details. | |
| 6 | + | |
| 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) | |
| 19 | + | |
| 20 | + compares two strings. returns 0 if they match, and non-zero if not. | |
| 21 | + | |
| 22 | +Py_ssize_t STRINGLIB_LEN(PyObject*) | |
| 23 | + | |
| 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) | |
| 28 | + | |
| 29 | + creates a new string object | |
| 30 | + | |
| 31 | +STRINGLIB_CHAR* STRINGLIB_STR(PyObject*) | |
| 32 | + | |
| 33 | + returns the pointer to the character data for the given string | |
| 34 | + object (which must be of the right type) | |