[Python-3000] int-long unification (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 12:03:46 CEST 2006
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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Guido van Rossum schrieb:
Are you interested in doing this at the Google sprint next week? Sure; I hadn't any special plans so far.
What do you think? Sounds good. There are two problems I see: - how to benchmark? - there are subtle details in the API that require changes to extension code. In particular, PyIntAsLong currently cannot fail, but can fail with a range error after the unification.
PyInt_AsLong can already fail with OverflowError - pass it a PyLong object and it will try to convert it using the nb_int slot and PyLong_AsLong.
PyInt_AsLong is actually somewhat misnamed - it is really PyNumber_AsLong, since it accepts arbitrary objects and coerces them to integers via int, instead of just accepting PyInt instances.
Cheers, Nick.
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