[Python-3000] PyInt_ to PyLong_ rename

[Thomas Wouters]

On Dec 3, 2007 7:57 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2007 12:56 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > > It's only used for sys.maxint. Do we still need sys.maxint and
> > > PyInt_GetMax()? IMO PyLong_GetNativeMax() and sys.maxnativelong are
> > > better names.
> >
> > I think they should go entirely. They don't give any interesting
> > information about the Python implementation.
>
> Actually it's still somewhat interesting to be able to tell whether a
> particular Python build uses 64-bit pointer or 32-bit pointers. (I
> realize sys.maxint doesn't quite tell us this, but on Linux at least
> it does.)


The removal of classic slices already added sys.maxsize, which is the max of
Py_ssize_t.

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