Travis Oliphant wrote:
What is the opinion of people on this list about how to fix the
problem. I believe Martin was looking at the problem and had told
Perry Greenfield he was "fixing it." Apparently at the recent PyCon,
Perry and he talked and Martin said the problem is harder than he had
I'm posting to this list to again generate open discussion on the
problem in current Python that an int is used in both the Python
sequence protocol and the Python buffer protocol.
The problem is that a C-int is typically only 4 bytes long while there
are many applications (mmap for example),
