[Python-Dev] Type of range object members
James Y Knight
foom at fuhm.net
Wed Aug 16 01:33:12 CEST 2006
On Aug 15, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> There's no particular reason that a short int must be able to store
>> the entire range of C "long", so, as many bits can be stolen from it
>> as desired.
>
> There isn't? Actually a lot of APIs currently assumen that.
I thought we were talking about Py3k. *IF* the idea is to integrate
both short/long ints into a single type, with only an internal
distinction (which is what is being discussed), all those APIs are
broken already. The particular internal division of the new int
object between short and long doesn't matter. Which is all I was saying.
If combining all integers into a single type isn't actually desired,
then neither my message nor Martin's is relevant.
James
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