[XML-SIG] Python versions supported by PyXML?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> 
> "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org> writes:
> 
> > I had been thinking that we still wanted to support Python 2.0, but
> > Martin's most recent changes to pyexpat.c dropped support for Python
> > versions before 2.2 (PyOS_snprintf() was added then, and pyexpat.c now
> > relies on that.)
> 
> That is only temporary: The change was already in Python's pyexpat.c,
> and I merely propagated it to PyXML. It's definitely desirable to port
> this with older Python versions.
> 
> I think the best approach is to revert Tim's change and use sprintf
> again, adding a comment that this cannot possibly overflow, unless you
> have integers larger than 64 bits, and that many lines and columns in
> a file.

Why not make PyOS_snprintf() a macro pointing to snprintf()
or even sprintf() for older Python versions ?

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