New submission from Armin Rigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
struct.pack('L', -1) raises a DeprecationWarning since Python 2.5, as it
should. However, it also returns a different (and nonsensical) result
than Python <= 2.4 used to: it returns '\x00\x00\x00\x00' instead of
'\xff\xff\xff\xff'.
This might lead the zipfile module of release25-maint (the version >=
2.5.2) to produce buggy zip files. The -1 value can come as the
header_offset field, which will then be packed as an all-0 string
instead of an all-ff string in the zip file headers.
Given the DeprecationWarning I would classify this as low priority.
However, given that the stdlib module zipfile relies on this feature in
release25-maint, it should probably really be fixed.
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messages: 75319
nosy: arigo
severity: normal
status: open
title: struct.pack('L', -1)
versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.5.3, Python 2.6, Python 2.7
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