[Python-Dev] What letter should an UnsignedLongLong get (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Mar 15 19:49:00 CET 2012


2012/3/15 Gil Colgate <gcolgate at gmail.com>:

We use a lot of UnsignedLongLongs in our program (ids) and have been parsing in PyArgParseTuple with 'K', which does not do error checking. I am planning to add a new type to our local build of python for parsing Unsigned Long Longs (64 bit numbers) that errrors if the number has more than the correct number of bits.

I am thinking to use the letter 'N' for this purpose, since l,k,K,U,u are all taken.

Unfortunately, the would conflict with Py_BuildValue's 'N'.

-- Regards, Benjamin



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