Grant Edwards wrote: > I give up, how do I make this not fail under 2.4? > > fcntl.ioctl(self.dev.fileno(),0xc0047a80,struct.pack("HBB",0x1c,0x00,0x00)) > > I get an OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int > > ioctl() is expecting a 32-bit integer value, and 0xc0047a80 has > the high-order bit set. I'm assuming Python thinks it's a > signed value. How do I tell Python that 0xc0047a80 is an > unsigned 32-bit value?
This is fixed in the 2.5 CVS branch, where the ioctl() Python C wrapper expects an unsigned integer instead of a signed one. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list