On 5/15/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking at Python/marshal.c and there are a lot of places that > > don't support sequences that are larger than would fit into size(int). > > I looked for marshal referenced in the PEP and didn't find anything. > > Was this an oversight or intentional? > > I'm still leaning towards "don't change", since I don't expect > that such string objects occur in source code, and since I still > think source code / .pyc is/should be the major application > of marshal.
I agree this is fine. I'll update the PEP with this rationale and the link(s) you provided unless anyone objects. That way we have it clearly documented that this was intentional. I didn't remember this discussion back when ssize_t was done. n _______________________________________________ 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
