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Author	serhiy.storchaka
Recipients	mark.dickinson, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2013-02-06.15:56:03
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Message-id	<1360166163.91.0.567019045529.issue5308@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> (And as a matter of principle, > INT_MAX isn't really right here: an int might be only 16 bits long on > some strange platforms...). AFAIK Python doesn't support such platforms (and C standard requites at least 32-bit ints). However there are strange platforms with 64-bit ints. That's why I used the explicit constant 0x7FFFFFFF.

> (And as a matter of principle, 
> INT_MAX isn't really right here: an int might be only 16 bits long on 
> some strange platforms...).

AFAIK Python doesn't support such platforms (and C standard requites at least 32-bit ints). However there are strange platforms with 64-bit ints. That's why I used the explicit constant 0x7FFFFFFF.

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