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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Aug 16 03:47:37 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 8/15/06, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:

There's no particular reason that a short int must be able to store the entire range of C "long", so, as many bits can be stolen from it as desired. There isn't? Actually a lot of APIs currently assumen that.

Also it means you'd pay a penalty every time you access it, whereas presumably short ints are the case we want to optimise for speed as well.

-- Greg

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