On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 11:58:05 AM UTC+12, I wrote: > > Are people still using Win32? I thought Windows went 64-bit years ago.
Here <http://arstechnica.com/apple/2008/05/microsoft-learn-from-apple-ii/3/> is a little titbit I was looking for: Win32 has a function for getting the size of a file. File sizes on Windows are limited to 2^64 bytes, and so they need a 64-bit integer to be expressed easily. But the API call to get the size of a file doesn't give you a 64-bit value. Instead, it gives you a pair of 32-bit values that have to be combined in a particular way. For 32-bit Windows, that's sort of understandable; 32-bit Windows is, well, 32-bit, so you might not expect to be able to use 64-bit integers. But if you use the same API in 64-bit Windows, it still gives you the pair of numbers, rather than just a nice simple 64-bit number. While this made some kind of sense on 32-bit Windows, it makes no sense at all on 64-bit Windows, since 64-bit Windows can, by definition, use 64-bit numbers. This is why it’s still called “Win32” and not “Win64”... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list