"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
Can you please explain how this will happen? If you do int x; PyArg_ParseTuple(args,"i",&x); and args is (0x80000000,), what will be the value of x?
x should be 0x80000000. Whether that's a negative number in its decimal representation is really not all that important if you are interfacing to 32-bit bitmaps ;-)
This was not my question. I asked what the value *will* be, not what it *should* be. Can you answer the first question (how will this happen)?
I honestly don't think that anyone would write x = 0x80000000 and then expect x < 0 to be True. People usually write hex representations when they are trying to do bit-level manipulations and these rarely deal with signed numeric data.
I agree with all that. However, I cannot see how an actual implementation works that simultaneously meets all implied requirements: - integer constants are always positive; you get negative numbers only with a unary "-". - ParseTuple continues to raise OverflowErrors for values that are out of range. - The constant 0x80000000 has the same trailing 32 bits in the C int or long as it has in Python. Regards, Martin