5 Jun
2001
5 Jun
'01
5:41 a.m.
Tim Peters wrote:
If you do pursue this, please please please boost the rf_length field! An int is too small to hold real-life sizes anymore, and "large files" are becoming common even on 32-bit boxes. Python needs to grow a wholly supported way to pass 8-byte ints around (and it looks like I'll be adding that to the struct module, possibly to the array module and marshal too).
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