Removed PyInt_GetMax and sys.maxint
I replaced sys.maxint with sys.maxsize in Lib/*.py. Does anybody see a problem with the change on Win 64bit platforms? Win 64's long is just 32bit but the sys.maxsize is now 2**63-1 on every 64bit platform.
Also added docs for sys.maxsize.
diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py
index a044087..917c3f5 100644
--- a/Lib/gzip.py
+++ b/Lib/gzip.py
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
def readline(self, size=-1):
if size < 0:
- size = sys.maxint
+ size = sys.maxsize
readsize = self.min_readsize
else:
readsize = size
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@
def readlines(self, sizehint=0):
# Negative numbers result in reading all the lines
if sizehint <= 0:
- sizehint = sys.maxint
+ sizehint = sys.maxsize
L = []
while sizehint > 0:
line = self.readline()