Lin schrieb: > Hi, > > I installed the amd64 version of Python 2.6.1 on my Windows XP x64 > system. I was expecting sys.maxint to be 9223372036854775807 (or 2 ^63 > -1), but instead I got 2147483647 (i.e., 2^31-1) just like what I got > from a 32-bit version of Python. Is this by design or does it indicate > a bug or an installation problem? Thank you very much!
This is by design. In their infinitive wisdom Microsoft has decided to make the 'long' C type always a 32 bit signed integer - even on 64bit systems. On most Unix systems a long is at least 32 bit but usually sizeof(ptr). Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list