[Python-3000] PyInt_ to PyLong_ rename

[Thomas Heller]

Jim Jewett schrieb:
> On 12/3/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> On Dec 3, 2007 12:12 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>> > >> Sure. However, you could also use
>> > >> _testcapi.PY_SSIZE_T_MAX, or
>> > >> ctypes.sizeof(ctypes.py_object).
> 
>> > > Much less intuitive though.
> 
>> > Actually, I find the ctypes version a more direct answer to the
>> > question "what is the address space?".
> 
> (1)  Is there a valid use case for this that needs to be supported
> with the "same code" across distributions before ctypes?

> (2)  Is "without ctypes" still a supported build configuration,
> because of the crash-risks?  More narrowly, is can we assume that they
> don't need the exact size/address unless they're doing extensions that
> have at least as much risk as ctypes?

Not sure about these.  However, there is still struct.calcsize("P") and variants thereof.

Thomas