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| author | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2007-12-04 23:02:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2007-12-04 23:02:19 (GMT) |
| commit | a37d4c693a024154093b36a612810c3bd72d9254 (patch) | |
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| parent | 327858ef2c4512937a1333212a3b46a62c18ccc3 (diff) | |
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Removed PyInt_GetMax and sys.maxint
I replaced sys.maxint with sys.maxsize in Lib/*.py. Does anybody see a problem with the change on Win 64bit platforms? Win 64's long is just 32bit but the sys.maxsize is now 2**63-1 on every 64bit platform.
Also added docs for sys.maxsize.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/itertools.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/sys.rst | 9 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst index 7c7442b..54b52e4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst +++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ loops that truncate the stream. def islice(iterable, *args): s = slice(*args) - it = iter(range(s.start or 0, s.stop or sys.maxint, s.step or 1)) + it = iter(range(s.start or 0, s.stop or sys.maxsize, s.step or 1)) nexti = next(it) for i, element in enumerate(iterable): if i == nexti: diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index 97f94aa..3fc86e4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -365,11 +365,12 @@ always available. etc.) -.. data:: maxint +.. data:: maxsize - The largest positive integer supported by Python's regular integer type. This - is at least 2\*\*31-1. The largest negative integer is ``-maxint-1`` --- the - asymmetry results from the use of 2's complement binary arithmetic. + An integer giving the size of ``Py_ssize_t``. It's usually 2**31-1 on a 32 + bit platform and 2**63-1 on a 64bit platform. + + ..versionadded:: 3.0 .. data:: maxunicode |