Mark Harrison wrote: > I've got an API that deals with 64 bit int values. Is there > any way of handling this smoothly? Right now I'm casting > the values into and out of strings for the API.
In XML-RPC, everything is transmitted as a string, so I don't think that choice is really that bad - except of course for the additional clumsiness for invoking explicit conversion functions. But no, XML-RPC doesn't have a data type that can represent integers above 2**32. If you can accept losing precision, you can use doubles (but you still would have to convert explicitly on the sender). > If not, are there any nice alternatives to XML-RPC that > support this? CORBA certainly supports 64-bit integers. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
