[Python-Dev] Py_ssize_t (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Feb 20 19:35:57 CET 2007


On 2/20/07, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:

In any case, hash codes are defined to be of type "long" in the C API, so there appears no painless way to boost their size on boxes where sizeof(Pyssizet) > sizeof(long).

But that would only be on Windows; I believe other vendors have a 64-bit long on 64-bit machines.

I suppose the pain wouldn't be any greater than the pain of turning int into Py_ssize_t. Perhaps less so in Py3k since there the issue that PyInt only holds a C long is solved (by equating it to PyLong :).

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