Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 04.04.13 00:57, Chris Angelico написав(ла):
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue17629 opened.
>
>
> See also the discussion at
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.ideas/15640 . I agree with
> rejection. This is an implementation detail and different Python
> implementations (including future CPython versions) can have different
> internal string implementations.

I really don't see why this means that there can't be a function in
sys, or something. I mean, other Pythons aren't expected to return the
exact same values from sys.getsizeof, are they? But clearly the weight
of opinion is against me, so fine, I don't care that much.

ChrisA