[Very Long (11K)] Numeric PEPs, first public posts

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Sat, 17 Mar 2001 17:25:04 GMT, Rainer Deyke <root at rainerdeyke.com> pisze:

> A simpler way to solve this problem would be to standardize Python
> ints as 32 bit.

I would definitely not do it (especially as 64-bit platforms will be
more popular as the time goes). Relying on the size of a type called
int is evil. Call a type/class int32 if you want to guarantee that
it's exactly 32 bits.

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