+1. I think this is long overdue. While I can't judge the amount of code breakage, 2.5 is as good an opportunity as any.
--Guido On 12/29/05, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please let me know what you think. > > Regards, > Martin > > PEP: XXX > Title: Using ssize_t as the index type > Version: $Revision$ > Last-Modified: $Date$ > Author: Martin v. Löwis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Status: Draft > Type: Standards Track > Content-Type: text/x-rst > Created: 18-Dec-2005 > Post-History: > > > Abstract > ======== > > In Python 2.4, indices of sequences are restricted to the C type > int. On 64-bit machines, sequences therefore cannot use the full > address space, and are restricted to 2**31 elements. This PEP proposes > to change this, introducing a platform-specific index type > Py_ssize_t. An implementation of the proposed change is in > http://svn.python.org/projects/python/branches/ssize_t. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
