On 1/17/09, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Mark Dickinson <dickinsm <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> Benjamin wondered aloud about deprecating PyNumber_Long >> in the issue 4910 discussion; I suggested deprecating >> PyNumber_Int instead, but on reflection I think Benjamin's right: >> it seems neater to keep the PyNumber_Int <-> int() <-> nb_int >> naming connections than the PyNumber_Long <-> PyLong >> ones. > > The C API uses the Long (rather than Int) wording, so it would be rather > strange > to have an outlier in PyNumber_Int. We should keep PyNumber_Long instead.
I agree with Antoine here. Using nb_int instead of nb_long is rather unfortunate, but I think it's more important to keep the C-API function names consistent. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
