[Python-Dev] Followup - Re: Bad python 2.5 build on OSX 10.8 mountain lion

Way back on 2012-10-05 23:45:11 GMT in article , I wrote:

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In article <20121002073135.GA26567@sleipnir.bytereef.org>, Stefan Krah wrote:

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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.

FYI, today Apple finally released OS X 10.8.3, the next maintenance release of Mountain Lion, and it does include a recompiled version of Python 2.5.6 that appears to solve the sign-extension problem: 2**31-1 is now 2147483647L. -- Ned Deily, nad@acm.org