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I've been evaluating Cython for both code obfuscation and for using C based extensions to improve performance. Cython is pretty nice, but shipping binary only Python extensions can be such a pain, especially dealing with 2-byte vs 4-byte unicode representation issues.

I need to try Go one of these days !

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> shipping binary only Python extensions can be such a pain, especially dealing with 2-byte vs 4-byte unicode representation issues

The issue with different Unicode builds was fixed 5 years ago, in Python 3.3:

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.3.html#pep-393-flexible...

Yes it's nice to see this is now fixed. In my case I need to support Python 2.7 though, and for Python 2.7 the only workaround I know of is shipping two binaries (2 byte and 4 byte encoding) then loading the correct module at runtime.

> especially dealing with 2-byte vs 4-byte unicode

Wasn’t that solved years ago?

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