[Python-Dev] (some) C99 added to PEP 7 (original) (raw)

Steve Dower steve.dower at python.org
Thu Sep 8 16:35:21 EDT 2016


On 08Sep2016 1301, Chris Barker wrote:

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com_ _<mailto:random832 at fastmail.com>> wrote:

You're talking about changing Pyssizet, right?

wouldn't that be the pointer size? Is there a "long" in there anywhere in the integer implementation? [SNIP] Does py3 already use int64?

Py3 has used a variable-length int representation for its entire existence.

Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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Cheers, Steve



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