Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] zipfile still has 2GB boundary bug

2005-04-26 Thread Guido van Rossum
#x27;d > either still be broken, or I'd have switched to some other way of > creating archives! > > The zipfile module is good enough to create input files for zipimport.. > which is well tested and generally works -- barring the fact that > zipimport has quite a few ro

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] zipfile still has 2GB boundary bug

2005-04-26 Thread Guido van Rossum
ite (even it's only a single module). Given that the API is mostly sensible, please propose gradual refactoring of the implementation, perhaps some new API methods, and so on. Don't throw away the work that went into making it work in the first place! http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articl

[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] Darwin's realloc(...) implementation never shrinks allocations

2005-01-03 Thread Guido van Rossum
ion of the old size. Most code that I recall writing using these tends to start with a guaranteed-to-fit overallocation, and a single resize at the end. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist -