[Python-Dev] Deprecation warning on integer shifts and such

[Martin v. Loewis]

Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> writes:

> Yes, but due to the way the parser works everything works fine for
> me. In the constant definition file it says "foo = 0xff000000". The
> parser turns this into a negative integer. Fine with me, the bits
> are the same, and PyArg_Parse doesn't complain.

Please notice that this will stop working some day: 0xff000000 will be
a positive number, and the "i" parser will raise an OverflowError.

By that time, you might be using the "k" parser, which will accept
0xff000000 both as a negative and a positive number, and fill the int
with 0xff000000.

Before that happens, you might want to anticipate that problem, and
propose an implementation that means minimum changes for you - it then
will likely mean minimum changes for everybody else, as well. Perhaps
"k" isn't such a good solution, perhaps "I" is better, or perhaps "i"
should weaken its range checking, and emit a deprecationwarning when
an unsigned number is passed.

Regards,
Martin