On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:57 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote: .. >> Note that we can have both a macro and a function >> version. This is fairly standard practice in Python C-API. >> Sure, but what for ? > Mostly just for consistency with the other macros: http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/c-api/unicode.html#unicode-character-properties Wait, these actually map to C functions as well. So this is just a naming issue.