>> The reason for digits being a multiple of 5 bits should be revisited vs >> its original intent
> I added that. The only intent was to make it easier to implement > bigint exponentiation easily ... That said, I see the comments in longintrepr.h note a stronger constraint: """ the marshal code currently expects that PyLong_SHIFT is a multiple of 15 """ But that's doubtless also shallow. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YSNDNGB2QUBS3ZX2JZNFZCDITRTDGBEM/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/