[Python-Dev] Type of range object members (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Tue Aug 15 01:08:18 CEST 2006


The range object is currently defined in Objects/rangeobject.c as

typedef struct { PyObject_HEAD long start; long step; long len; } rangeobject;

Is this consistent with PEP 353, or should Py_ssize_t be used instead of long?

It looks like some of the code in rangeobject.c is already Py_ssize_t aware (see range_item and range_length), but it assumes that it is safe to cast long to ssize_t and back.



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