Way back on 2012-10-05 23:45:11 GMT in article <nad-7c84d6.16451105102...@news.gmane.org>, I wrote:
> In article <nad-b4e67a.00475902102...@news.gmane.org>, > Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > > In article <20121002073135.ga26...@sleipnir.bytereef.org>, > > Stefan Krah <ste...@bytereef.org> wrote: > > > Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> wrote: > > > > > Forgot the link... > > > > > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7885 > > > > > On Monday, October 1, 2012, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > > > > As discussed here, the python 2.5 binary distributed by Apple on > > > > > > mountain > > > > > > lion is broken. Could someone file an official complaint? > > > > I've filed a bug against 10.8 python2.5. The 10.8 versions of Apple's > > > > pythons are compile with clang and we did see some sign extension > > > > issues > > > > with ctypes. The 10.7 version of Apple's python2.5 is compiled with > > > > llvm-gcc and handles 2**31 correctly. > > > Yes, this looks like http://bugs.python.org/issue11149 . > > Ah, right, thanks. I've updated the Apple issue accordingly. > > Update: the bug I filed has been closed as a duplicate of #11932488 > which apparently at the moment is still open. No other information is > available. FYI, today Apple finally released OS X 10.8.3, the next maintenance release of Mountain Lion, and it does include a recompiled version of Python 2.5.6 that appears to solve the sign-extension problem: 2**31-1 is now 2147483647L. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
