[C++-sig] Re: Can't convert to unsigned int

[Nicodemus]

David Abrahams wrote:

>The real question is, how do we represent an unsigned integer
>constant which requires exactly 32-bits?  We have 3 choices:
>
>    1. We don't (current approach, probably not acceptable)
>
>    2. PyInt_FromLong(x)
>
>    3. A Python Long representing the actual value. It's not so easy
>    to write down the correct expression for this one ;-)
>

You said that 2) couldn't represent a unsigned long correctly, because 
it takes as an argument a signed long (or am I missing something?)...
I don't see another way to solve this issue, but to implement unsigned 
longs as PyLongs.

Dave, you said that you wasn't sure about the best approach to this 
problem... what would be the disadvantages of a PyLong approach?

Nicodemus.