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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Provide PyLong conversions with Py_(u)intptr_t","articleBody":"# Feature or enhancement\n\n### Proposal:\n\nThe following C API functions would be nice to have and probably easy to provide.\n```c\nPyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyLong_FromIntptr_t(Py_intptr_t);\nPyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) PyLong_FromUintptr_t(Py_uintptr_t);\n\nPyAPI_FUNC(Py_intptr_t) PyLong_AsInptr_t(PyObject *);\nPyAPI_FUNC(Py_uintptr_t) PyLong_AsUinptr_t(PyObject *);\n```\n\nNote that the given integers types should exist, as they have official counterparts [in C99](https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/types/integer).\n\n### Has this already been discussed elsewhere?\n\nThis is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere\n\n### Links to previous discussion of this feature:\n\nThere is a discussion of a similar feature in https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/62070, but I would argue that `intptr_t` and `uintptr_t` are much more common in real life that `intmax_t`.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/pitrou","@type":"Person","name":"pitrou"},"datePublished":"2023-10-14T07:44:37.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/110863/cpython/issues/110863"}