On 21/09/2018 16.26, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> What about the small integers cache? > > I believe the small integers cache is only used to reduce the number of > objects -- I don't think there's any code (in CPython itself) that just > *assumes* that because an int is small it must be in the cache. So it > should be fine.
Some places may assume that PyLong_FromLong() for a small int never fails. I certainly expect this in coverity scan modeling. Christian _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
