[Python-Dev] Cost-Free Slice into FromString constructors--Long

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters wrote:
> PyLong_FromString() only sees the starting
> address, and-- as it always does --parses until it hits a character
> that doesn't make sense for the input base.

This is the bug, then. long() shouldn't be using
PyLong_FromString() to convert its argument, but
something that takes an address and a size. (Is
there a PyLong_FromStringAndSize()? If not, there
should be.)

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Greg