Chris Rebert wrote: > It's been compiled for 64-bit processors, so it uses 64-bit pointers > and 64-bit small integers. And I would think it would only work w/ C > extension libraries also compiled for 64-bit CPUs. So, the same > meaning 64-bit has for anything else really.
A 64bit build of Python doesn't necessarily mean that the small integer type is 64bit, too. Python uses the datatype long on all platforms. On Windows sizeof(long) == 4 (four bytes) on 32 and 64 versions of Windows. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
