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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Aug 16 01:20:39 CEST 2006


James Y Knight schrieb:

But it's the short int that you probably really want to make size efficient.

Only if you have many of them. And if you do, you have the problem of the special-cased allocator: when the many ints go away, Python will hold onto their memory forever.

Regards, Martin



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