Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Thu Mar 15 19:49:00 CET 2012

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2012/3/15 Gil Colgate <gcolgate at gmail.com>:
> We use a lot of UnsignedLongLongs in our program (ids) and have been parsing
> in PyArg_ParseTuple with 'K', which does not do error checking.
> I am planning to add a new type to our local build of python for parsing
> Unsigned Long Longs (64 bit numbers) that errrors if the number has more
> than the correct number of bits.
>
> I am thinking to use the letter 'N' for this purpose, since l,k,K,U,u are
> all taken.

Unfortunately, the would conflict with Py_BuildValue's 'N'.



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Benjamin

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