But not python.  It seems to cause the javascript front ends the most woe.

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On Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:26:06 AM UTC+8, Ray wrote:
>
> In short: if any part of your applications use 32 bit integers (which is 
> still the default for many environments) to store any IDs of entities, your 
> application will break once this change is deployed.
>
>
> On Saturday, May 25, 2013 8:04:08 AM UTC+8, Chris Ramsdale wrote:
>>
>> Hello App Engine folks,
>>
>> In the upcoming 1.8.1 release, the Datastore default auto ID policy in 
>> production will switch to scattered IDs to improve performance. This 
>> change will take effect for all versions of your app uploaded with the 
>> 1.8.1 SDK.
>>
>> You can preview the new behavior in the dev server, where scattered auto 
>> IDs are the default. These IDs are large, well-distributed integers, but 
>> are guaranteed to be small enough to be completely represented as 64-bit 
>> floats. If you still need legacy ids for some entities (e.g. because you 
>> want smaller numbers for user-facing ids), we recommend you use the 
>> allocateIds() API, which will continue to behave as before. You can also 
>> override the default auto id policy by setting the new auto_id_policy option 
>> in your app.yaml/appengine-web.xml to legacy, but please note that this 
>> option will be deprecated in a future release and will eventually be 
>> removed.
>>
>> If you have any questions don't hesitate to follow-up here or drop me a 
>> line directly.
>>
>> -- Chris
>>
>> Product Manager, Google App Engine
>>  
>

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