Martin v. Löwis <mar...@v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> I would like to see this reopened: we have a very large class of
> users that are not ready to entirely port to 64-bit and need this
> now.

And I remain -1 to such requests. You can appeal to that by writing a
PEP, or finding a committer who is willing to make this change.

Alternatively, just provide these users with binaries that you built
yourself, or hire somebody to build such binaries for you.

> I understand that yes, applications still cannot allocate more
> CONTIGUOUS memory, but this is not a regression if it continues to be
> so. 

It would be a regression if Python started crashing because of that
change, which is my concern.

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