Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Ian Kelly]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

If you want it, nobody is stopping you from writing it yourself as an
extension module.  But I don't think the use case is strong enough to
warrant the devs adding it and then having to maintain it.