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gh-106320: Remove private _PyUnicode_AsString() alias #107021

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5 changes: 0 additions & 5 deletions Include/cpython/unicodeobject.h
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Expand Up @@ -446,17 +446,12 @@ PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject*) PyUnicode_FromKindAndData(
Like PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize(), this also caches the UTF-8 representation
in the unicodeobject.

_PyUnicode_AsString is a #define for PyUnicode_AsUTF8 to
support the previous internal function with the same behaviour.

Use of this API is DEPRECATED since no size information can be
extracted from the returned data.
*/

PyAPI_FUNC(const char *) PyUnicode_AsUTF8(PyObject *unicode);

#define _PyUnicode_AsString PyUnicode_AsUTF8

/* === Characters Type APIs =============================================== */

/* These should not be used directly. Use the Py_UNICODE_IS* and
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-07-22-14-40-48.gh-issue-106320.H3u7x4.rst
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Remove private ``_PyUnicode_AsString()`` alias to
:c:func:`PyUnicode_AsUTF8`. It was kept for backward compatibility with
Python 3.0 - 3.2. The :c:func:`PyUnicode_AsUTF8` is available since Python
3.3. The :c:func:`PyUnicode_AsUTF8String` function can be used to keep
compatibility with Python 3.2 and older. Patch by Victor Stinner.