On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:30:49PM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: > > I don't really like the maxint/2 idea because it requires us to > >differentiate between globals and everything else. Plus, it's a hack. I'd > >like a more elegant solution if possible. > > It's not really a solution either. If your program runs for a couple > minutes and then exits, maybe it won't trigger some catastrophic behavior > from this hack, but if you have a long running process then you're almost > certain to be screwed over by this
You misunderstand - the point of the 'maxint/2' thing isn't to prevent something from happening at all, it's to prevent it from happening *frequently*. _______________________________________________ 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
