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

Gil Colgate gcolgate at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 20:59:39 CET 2012

How about 'G'? (Giant, or perhaps gynormous, integer?)

Then I could also map 'g' to the signed version (same as L) for consistency.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>wrote:

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 PyBuildValue's 'N'.

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