Christopher Subich wrote: >> anyone out there with an ILP64 system? > > I have access to an itanium system with a metric ton of memory. I > -think- that the Python version is still only a 32-bit python
an ILP64 system is a system where int, long, and pointer are all 64 bits, so a 32-bit python on a 64-bit platform doesn't really qualify. /... snip examples that show that python's string handling could need some work for the len(s) > maxint case .../ </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list