[Python-Dev] marshal and ssize_t (PEP 353) (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Wed May 16 06:27:24 CEST 2007


On 5/15/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> I'm looking at Python/marshal.c and there are a lot of places that > don't support sequences that are larger than would fit into size(int). > I looked for marshal referenced in the PEP and didn't find anything. > Was this an oversight or intentional?

I'm still leaning towards "don't change", since I don't expect that such string objects occur in source code, and since I still think source code / .pyc is/should be the major application of marshal.

I agree this is fine. I'll update the PEP with this rationale and the link(s) you provided unless anyone objects. That way we have it clearly documented that this was intentional. I didn't remember this discussion back when ssize_t was done.

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