On woensdag, apr 16, 2003, at 20:11 Europe/Amsterdam, Thomas Heller wrote:
| How about the following counterproposal. This also changes some of the | other format codes to be a little more regular. | | Code C type Range check | | b unsigned char 0..UCHAR_MAX | B unsigned char none ** | h unsigned short 0..USHRT_MAX | H unsigned short none ** | i int INT_MIN..INT_MAX | I * unsigned int 0..UINT_MAX | l long LONG_MIN..LONG_MAX | k * unsigned long none | L long long LLONG_MIN..LLONG_MAX | K * unsigned long long none | | Notes: | | * New format codes. | | ** Changed from previous "range-and-a-half" to "none"; the | range-and-a-half checking wasn't particularly useful.
Do I understand correctly that there is no format code that works on both 2.2 and 2.3 that converts 32 bit quantities without complaining (B and H will work for 8 and 16 bit quantities)? That may be a serious problem for PyObjC.... -- - Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> http://www.cwi.nl/~jack - - If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman -