[Python-Dev] (some) C99 added to PEP 7

[Guido van Rossum]

Can you guys get a room? There is absolutely no reason that all of
python-dev needs to hear this.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
> On 08Sep2016 1301, Chris Barker wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com
>> <mailto:random832 at fastmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     You're talking about changing Py_ssize_t, right?
>>
>>
>> wouldn't that be the pointer size?
>>
>> Is there a "long" in there anywhere in the integer implementation?
>> [SNIP]
>> Does py3 already use int64?
>
>
> Py3 has used a variable-length int representation for its entire existence.
>
> Python 3.0.1 (r301:69561, Feb 13 2009, 20:04:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
> on win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> 2**1000
> 10715086071862673209484250490600018105614048117055336074437503883703510511249361224931983788156958581275946729175531468251871452856923140435984577574698574803934567774824230985421074605062371141877954182153046474983581941267398767559165543946077062914571196477686542167660429831652624386837205668069376
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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