[Python-Dev] Py_ssize_t

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Raymond Hettinger writes:

 > Two people had some difficulty building non-upgraded third-party modules
 > with Py2.5 on 64-bit machines (I think wxPython was one of the problems)

In my experience wxPython is problematic, period.  It's extremely
tightly bound to internal details of everything around it.  In
particular, on every package system I've (tried to) build it, the
first thing the package does is to check for its own version of
Python, and pull it in if it's not there.