[Python-Dev] ssize_t status (Was: release plan for 2.5 ?) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Feb 10 21:40:59 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

PEP 353: Using ssizet as the index type

Neal tells me that this is in progress in a branch, but that the code is not yet flawless (tons of warnings etc.). Martin, can you tell us more?

"It works", in a way. You only get the tons of warnings with the right compiler, and you don't actually need to fix them all to get something useful. Not all modules need to be converted to support more than 2**31 elements for all containers they operate on, so this could also be based on user feedback.

Some users (so far, just Marc-Andre) have complained that this breaks backwards compatibility. Some improvements can be made still, but for some aspects (tp_as_sequence callbacks), I think the best we can hope for is compiler warnings about incorrect function pointer types.

When do you expect this to land? Maybe aggressively merging into the HEAD and then releasing it as alpha would be a good way to shake out the final issues???

Sure: I hope to complete this all in March.

Regards, Martin

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