[Distutils] [Python-3000] sizeof(size_t) < sizeof(long)

[David Cournapeau]

Greg Ewing wrote:
>  When you go into a computer store and ask for
> 256MB of RAM, you don't expect to be asked "What size
> bytes would that be, then, sir?"
>   

I ask for "256 Mo", Mo for Mega-octet: French (and most non English 
languages I am aware of) does not have this ambiguity :) And anyway, in 
a computer store, you find memory for personal computers, where one byte 
always has 8 bits.

> So it's a de facto standard, and one that works perfectly
> well. Going against it is both futile and unnecessary,
> as far as I can see.
>   

Going against the C standard seems pretty futile to me.

cheers,

David