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

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