A Divendres 16 Juny 2006 21:25, Thomas Heller va escriure: > Robert Kern wrote: > > Like how Win64 uses 32-bit longs and 64-bit pointers. And then there's > > signedness. Please don't use Python ints to encode pointers. Holding > > arbitrary pointers is the job of CObjects. > > (Sorry, I'm late in reading this thread. I didn't know there were so many > numeric groups) > > Python has functions to convert pointers to int/long and vice versa: > PyInt_FromVoidPtr() and PyInt_AsVoidPtr(). ctypes uses them, ctypes also > represents addresses as ints/longs.
Very interesting. So, may I suggest to use this capability to represent addresses? I think this would simplify things (specially it will prevent to use ascii/pointer conversions, which are ugly to my mind). Cheers, -- >0,0< Francesc Altet http://www.carabos.com/ V V Cárabos Coop. V. Enjoy Data "-" _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion