[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Type of range object members

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Aug 14, 2006, at 10:01 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Methinks that as long as PyIntObject uses long (see intobject.h)
>> there's no point in changing this to long.
>
> Those fields are going to have to change to Py_Object* eventually  
> if xrange() is going to become the range() replacement in Py3k. . .
>

In this case it will become indistinguishable from

typedef struct {
     PyObject_HEAD
     PyObject *start, *stop, *step;      /* not NULL */
} PySliceObject;

See sliceobject.h .  Would it make sense to unify rangeobject with  
PySliceObject?