Grzegorz Makarewicz wrote:
Many python programmas are relaying on computer int size - in prior versions bitnees is 32 long - now smoething happens and signed/unsigned value is not 32 bit long int but unsigned long int or even better unsigned uint64
consider that: a = ord(data[i]) .. data[i+4] - value is int or int64, signed or unsigned ?
0xf.. in prior versions up to 2.4.a2 int was used as signed value, now it is unsigned int64, so my question how to create signed int32 ?
No, it is not unsigned int64: Python 2.4a2 (#86, Aug 6 2004, 09:08:27) [GCC 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
0xfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff 28269553036454149273332760011886696253239742350009903329945699220681916415L
This number does not fit in 64 bits. Instead, Python integers are without bounds. See http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0237.html Regards, Martin