Guido van Rossum wrote: > Thanks for your understanding. > > Anyway, Nick's patch differs in at least one significant way from my > proposal -- (10**10).__index__() returns sys.maxint in his patch, > while I want it to return 10000000000L. So this is still an open > issue. >
I've reviewed Nick's patch and finally see the light for the need of nb_index to return a Python object. It also nicely parallels nb_int and nb_long so the same code can often be used (when it's appropriate for the object to be an integer). I understand the general rationale for the C-API, but I share reservations about using output arguments to convey error information. This seems quite a bit different from what Python normally does. I am going to beef up PEP-357 to address the main problem of nb_index returning a Py_ssize_t and then look at the C-API question more closely. I'm also going out of town next week (and have a bunch to prepare for it) so I'll only have a few hours to look at it. -Travis _______________________________________________ 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