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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	casevh, mark.dickinson
Date	2009-12-17.15:08:05
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> I'm specifically not in favor of adding it to the Python 2.7 API. Out of curiosity, why not? It seems like a reasonable addition to me. I'd continue to call it simply PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow, though. I note that in 2.x, PyLong_AsLong accepts both ints and longs, so it wouldn't seem unreasonable for PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow to do so too.

> I'm specifically not in favor of adding it to the Python 2.7 API.

Out of curiosity, why not?  It seems like a reasonable addition to me.

I'd continue to call it simply PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow, though.  I note
that in 2.x, PyLong_AsLong accepts both ints and longs, so it wouldn't
seem unreasonable for PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow to do so too.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-12-17 15:08:08	mark.dickinson	set	recipients: + mark.dickinson, casevh
2009-12-17 15:08:07	mark.dickinson	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2009-12-17 15:08:05	mark.dickinson	link	issue7528 messages
2009-12-17 15:08:05	mark.dickinson	create