[Python-Dev] Collection of typedefs for integral types

[Tim Peters]

>> BTW, a sane collection of typedefs would be another good candidate for
>> pyport.h.

[M.-A. Lemburg]
> Good idea.
>
> The only problem with typedefs is that they tend to cause conflicts
> when different definitions are encountered.
> We'd have to use e.g. Py_UINT4, Py_UINT2, etc...

Yes, but that's a hell of a lot better than the path the patch in question
started going down, w/ its Unicode-specific _PyUnicode_Int32 and (! probably
a bug) _PyUNICODE_Int32.