[Patches] Re: issues with int/long on 64bit platforms - eg stringobject (PR#306)

[Guido van Rossum]

> Added silent truncation to 'i' parser marker to enable the use 
> of sys.maxint as argument on 64-bit platforms. Values outside
> the range INT_MIN - INT_MAX are silently truncated to the
> resp. maximum values for int(egers).

Nice try, but given Tim Peters' post on this subject I can't apply
this...

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