On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Andrew Kuchling wrote: >... > Not quite *that* simple; you'd also have to change various bits of the > core that currently do PyInt_Check(whatever) to also accept longs. I > just sent off a patch to make long*sequence legal, but there's still > slicing and indexing to take care of: list[0L:5L] isn't currently > legal. > > The Solaris large-file patch that makes .tell() return a long is > probably going to turn up more errors like this. Making ints and long > ints integerchangeable would be an *excellent* idea. Possible for > 1.6? Maybe, if GvR indicates it should be a priority. 'grep -l > PyInt_Check' over the Python source code lists lots of Modules, most > of the files in Objects/, and 5 files in Python/ (ceval, marshal, > pythonrun, structmember, and traceback). Priority or not, it won't happen if the patch is not available :-) As we say in Apache-land, "+1 on concept" Cheers, -g ps. Python-land translation: I agree with the concept ... go for it -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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