[issue21199] Python on 64-bit Windows uses signed 32-bit type for read length

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Sun Apr 13 18:43:45 CEST 2014


Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Antoine: Inability to perform a 2GB+ read properly is not something
> that should be worked around on a case by case basis.

Really we are talking about Python 2.7 here. Anyone having this problem *has* to work it around in order for their code to work on published versions. The benefit of fixing this in the next 2.7.x iteration is small compared to the cost of a potential regression in the core I/O implementation.

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