STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > you should make a case by example
Did you read comments of this issue and my email thread on python-dev? There are differents examples: - LONG_MAX is 9223372036854775807 even on 32 bits system - On Mac OS X, FAT programs contains 32 and 64 binaries, whereas constants are changed for 32 or 64 bits > we cannot simply drop the modules. Some of the constants > are needed for e.g. socket, ctypes or ldd programming. Ah? I removed all plat-* directories and ran the full test suite: no failure. The Python socket modules contain many constants (SOCK_*, AF_*, SO_*, ...): http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.AF_UNIX Which constants are used by the ctypes modules or can be used by modules using ctypes? Can you give examples? I listed usages of plat-* modules in the first message of my thread on python-dev. By "ldd", you mean "ld.so" (dlopen)? Yes, I agree that we need to expose dl constants. But the other constants are not used. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12619> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
