On 5/14/06, "Martin v. Löwis"
Georg Brandl wrote:
Right. At least, not with changing structmember.[ch].
Did you mean "without"?
Oops, right.
Can I submit a patch?
I personally don't mind having more types added to structmember, so I'm +0 on adding Py_ssize_t to the list of types supported. I wonder what the specific application is that you have in mind, though.
I ended up needing T_SSIZE_T or T_SIZE_T (I forget which) in my first
attempt to fully Py_ssize-t-ify ctypes (but I was learning a lot about
ctypes at the same time, and I ended up breaking a lot of stuff.) I'm now
not sure whether it's really necessary for ctypes, but it was trivial to
add, not to mention symmetric and completely logical. However, I also have a
C extension of my own that exposes something quite like 'length' as an
attribute, and it really ought to be a Py_ssize_t struct member (instead of
the long it is now.)
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Thomas Wouters