[Python-Dev] int/long FutureWarning

[Mark Hammond]

I figured that once I started pasting and checking code like:
"""
if sys.version_info >= (2, 3):
    # sick off the new hex() warnings, and no time to digest what the
    # impact will be!
    import warnings
    warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=FutureWarning, append=1)
"""

into the Mozilla source tree, it was time to start digesting!

Unfortunately, a simple answer seems to allude me whenever it is brought up
here.

So, to cut a long story short, I have lots and lots of script generated,
then often hand-edited source files with constants defined thus:

SOMETHING = 0x80000000

Which generate a warning telling me that this may become a positive long in
Python 2.4.  All I really care about is how my C extension code, which does:

  PyArg_ParseTuple("ilhH", ...) // Take your pick

is going to react to this change?  (There are similar warnings for certain
shift operations too, but I believe they will all boil down to the same
issue)

People using the win32all extensions are unlikely to be happy with the
screenfulls of warning generated.  I know I'm not <wink>.  But I don't know
what to do.

I know I can suppress the warning either using the code I have above, or
simply by appending an L to each of the thousands of constants, or even
converting them all to decimal.  But if nothing is going to change from the
POV of my C extensions, then changing all these constants just to suppress a
warning seems overkill.

Any suggestions for me?

Thanks,

Mark.