I've just posted a simple patch to the patches list which implements the idea I posted earlier: Silent truncation still takes place, but in a somwhat more natural way ;-) ... /* Silently truncate to INT_MAX/INT_MIN to make passing sys.maxint to 'i' parser markers work on 64-bit platforms work just like on 32-bit platforms. Overflow errors are not raised. */ else if (ival > INT_MAX) ival = INT_MAX; else if (ival < INT_MIN) ival = INT_MIN; *p = ival; -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Business: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/