64-bit Python?

[Kragen Sitaker]

"Bjorn Pettersen" <BPettersen at NAREX.com> writes:
> > From: Kragen Sitaker [mailto:kragen at pobox.com]=20
> > The problem is that all of the 64-bit platforms I have access=20
> > to (various Linuxes on Alpha and IA-64, Tru64 on Alpha) have=20
> > 4-byte ints and 8-byte longs, at least by default.  This is=20
> > called "LP64": longs and pointers are 64, but ints are 32, so=20
> > all the code that assumes ints are 32 will continue to work.
> 
> Are you using Win64 on IA-64?

No, of course not.  Since when is "Win64" one of "various Linuxes"?

> Last time I checked (using the MS = compiler) a long was still 32
> bits, and you had to use __int64 to get a = 64 bit integer...

Startlingly braindead.  Perhaps that's to be expected.