pyfec: make it compatible with Python 2.4 as well as Python 2.5

diff --git a/pyfec/README.txt b/pyfec/README.txt
index 88d0f7623a813f081b3aa7852497281117d95ee7..3285f090889c91e4fb3bfb11fac3ffeb7c398cee 100644 (file)
--- a/pyfec/README.txt
+++ b/pyfec/README.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,8 @@ reading a file and encoding it piece by piece.
 
  * Dependencies
 
-A C compiler is required.  For the Python API, Python version 2.5 is required.
+A C compiler is required.  For the Python API, we have tested it with Python
+v2.4 and v2.5.
 
 
  * Performance Measurements

diff --git a/pyfec/fec/_fecmodule.c b/pyfec/fec/_fecmodule.c
index 70c8b82cdff6387640208b9a44e04c77e453221c..e62e85c5541acaea36902874b3ba7d3552a8b045 100644 (file)
--- a/pyfec/fec/_fecmodule.c
+++ b/pyfec/fec/_fecmodule.c
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
 #include <Python.h>
 #include <structmember.h>
 
+#if (PY_VERSION_HEX < 0x02050000)
+typedef int Py_ssize_t;
+#endif
+
 #include "fec.h"
 
 static PyObject *py_fec_error;