On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Ned Deily
In article
, Ned Deily wrote: In article <20121002073135.GA26567@sleipnir.bytereef.org>, Stefan Krah
wrote: Ned Deily
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
Forgot the link... http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7885 On Monday, October 1, 2012, Guido van Rossum wrote: 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.
Thanks Ned! Is there any way that I could see that bug myself and attach myself to updates? Otherwise, can you keep us here appraised of developments (even if Apple decides not to fix it)? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)