[Python-Dev] New PEP: Using ssize_t as the index type (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Dec 29 23:22:32 CET 2005


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Please let me know what you think.

+1. in honor of the Bike Shed Effect, I'm going to assume that you've thought of everything.

::: well, one thing seems to missing from your PEP: in several modules, you've changed the cast used in the type table. e.g.

--- python/branches/ssize_t/Modules/_elementtree.c (original) +++ python/branches/ssize_t/Modules/_elementtree.c Tue Dec 20 09:52:16 2005 @@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ }

static int -element_setitem(ElementObject* self, size_t index, PyObject* item) +element_setitem(ElementObject* self, Py_ssize_t index, PyObject* item) { int i; PyObject* old; @@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@ 0, /* sq_repeat */ (ssizeargfunc) element_getitem, (ssizessizeargfunc) element_getslice,

is this change backwards compatible ?



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