[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Feature Requests-1530394 ] 64-bit platform support

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Feature Requests item #1530394, was opened at 2006-07-28 08:44
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Category: win32
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Jason R. Coombs (jaraco)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: 64-bit platform support

Initial Comment:
I realize this project is called pywin32.  
Nevertheless, it seems the appropriate place to 
suggest a port to 64-bit platforms, particularly the 
x64 platform, as it is very close to the 32-bit 
equivalent.

I searched around and didn't find any discussion on 
this topic.

I'm willing to assist with the effort.

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>Comment By: Roger Upole (rupole)
Date: 2008-10-01 16:55

Message:
The 2.6 release has a 64-bit version, and the project can
be built for Python 2.5 64-bit now.  We should also have a
64-bit release for py3k eventually.


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Comment By: Roger Upole (rupole)
Date: 2006-07-29 23:50

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It will require a number of changes relating to the various 
types of HANDLEs.  Currently they're treated as longs 
(which stay 4 bytes), but in win64 HANDLEs are 8 bytes.

However, it looks like there will be more changes for 64bit 
python than for 64 bit windows.  I count 1300-odd uses of 
python API functions that will need to be converted to 
Py_ssize_t.  There are also a lot of places where s# is 
used with PyArg_ParseTuple that will need to be converted.
Many of them place the length in a 32-bit value that's 
passed directly to a Windows api function, so they'll need 
an intermediate variable with a bounds checks.


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