Travis E. Oliphant schrieb: >> 2. Should primitive type codes be characters or integers (from an enum) at >> C level? >> - I prefer integers > >> 3. Should size be expressed in bits or bytes? >> - I prefer bits >> > > So, you want an integer enum for the "kind" and an integer for the > bitsize? That's fine with me. > > One thing I just remembered. We have T_UBYTE and T_BYTE, etc. defined > in structmember.h already. Should we just re-use those #defines while > adding to them to make an easy to use interface for primitive types?
Notice that those type codes imply sizes, namely the platform sizes (where "platform" always means "what the C compiler does"). So if you want to have platform-independent codes as well, you shouldn't use the T_ codes. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
