PEP 353: Using ssize_t as the index type

[Tony Nelson]

In article <43ef0792$0$11891$9b622d9e at news.freenet.de>,
 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
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> Discussion
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> Why not size_t
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> An initial attempt to implement this feature tried to use
> size_t. It quickly turned out that this cannot work: Python
> uses negative indices in many places (to indicate counting
> from the end). Even in places where size_t would be usable,
> to many reformulations of code where necessary, e.g. in ...
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Minor typo:  "too"
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