David Heffernan added the comment:

I just ran into this issue. I'm trying to write code like this:

(ctypes.c_char*bufferLen).from_buffer(buffer)

where buffer is a bytearray. When bufferLen is greater than 2GB I fail foul of 
this code in _ctypes.c

    long length;
    ....
    length = PyLong_AsLongAndOverflow(length_attr, &overflow);
    if (overflow) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError,
                        "The '_length_' attribute is too large");
        Py_DECREF(length_attr);
        goto error;
    }

Surely this should not be forcing long on us. Can't it use PyLong_AsSsize_t or 
perhaps PyLong_AsLongLongAndOverflow?

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nosy: +David Heffernan

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