On Dec 3, 2007 7:57 PM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 2, 2007 12:56 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's only used for sys.maxint. Do we still need sys.maxint and > > > PyInt_GetMax()? IMO PyLong_GetNativeMax() and sys.maxnativelong are > > > better names. > > > > I think they should go entirely. They don't give any interesting > > information about the Python implementation. > > Actually it's still somewhat interesting to be able to tell whether a > particular Python build uses 64-bit pointer or 32-bit pointers. (I > realize sys.maxint doesn't quite tell us this, but on Linux at least > it does.)
The removal of classic slices already added sys.maxsize, which is the max of Py_ssize_t. -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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