Antoine Pitrou added the comment: As the comment just above that line says, this is for wire compatibility with older Python versions.
But we could have an escape hatch: a special value of the length (which happens to be encoded as a signed integer), such as -64, which would signal a following 64-bit length field. Would you like to submit a PR? ---------- nosy: +davin, pitrou stage: -> needs patch type: -> enhancement versions: +Python 3.7 -Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30685> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
