> On 8 Aug 2021, at 18:53, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
>
> 08.08.21 07:08, Stephen J. Turnbull пише:
>> Serhiy Storchaka writes:
>>
>>> Python integers have arbitrary precision. For serialization and
>>> interpolation with other programs and libraries we need to
>>> represent them [...]. [In the
On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 9:54 AM Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 1. Support conversion to/from all C integer types (char, short, int,
> long, long long, intN_t, intptr_t, intmax_t, wchar_t, wint_t and
> corresponding unsigned types),
I suggest support for the "new" C sized types available in
Why anyo
I lack the relevant experience to have an opinion on most of this, but FWIW
"PyLong_FromBytes/PyLong_ToBytes' seems clearest to me out of the options
proposed.
On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 2:23 PM Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> Python integers have arbitrary precision. For serialization and
> interpolation
08.08.21 11:41, Barry Scott пише:
>> On 7 Aug 2021, at 19:22, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
>> 1. How to encode the byte order?
>>
>> a) 1 -- little endian, 0 -- big endian
>> b) 0 -- little endian, 1 -- big endian
>> c) -1 -- little endian, +1 -- big endian, 0 -- native endian.
>
> Use an enum and do
08.08.21 07:08, Stephen J. Turnbull пише:
> Serhiy Storchaka writes:
>
> > Python integers have arbitrary precision. For serialization and
> > interpolation with other programs and libraries we need to
> > represent them [...]. [In the case of non-standard precisions,]
> > [t]here are private
On 2021-08-08 at 09:41:34 +0100,
Barry Scott wrote:
> What is mixed endian? I would guess that its use would be application
> specific - so I assume you would not need to support it.
Not AFAIK application specific, but hardware specific:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Mixed
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> On 7 Aug 2021, at 19:22, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
>
> Python integers have arbitrary precision. For serialization and
> interpolation with other programs and libraries we need to represent
> them as fixed-width integers (little- and big-endian, signed and
> unsigned). In Python, we can use st
