[Python-Dev] int/long FutureWarning

[Jack Jansen]

On donderdag, nov 28, 2002, at 11:44 Europe/Amsterdam, Martin v. L=F6wis=20=

wrote:

> Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> writes:
>
>> I've been sick and tired of these warnings, especially since in 99.9%
>> of the cases that you get the warning it is meaningless (as we are
>> really taking about bitpatterns that have a special meaning in some C
>> API). I personally haven't seen a single instance of the warning
>> making sense.
>
> I found that all those warnings are correct: in particular *when* the
> constant is a bit pattern in some C API.
>
> It means that your code *will* break in Python 2.4, unless you take
> corrective action (which you cannot take at the moment).

Well.... First of all, warning people about something without giving=20
them a way to do something about it isn't really good style. Second, it=20=

will *not* break in 2.4, because I'm just going to add an O& formatter=20=

PyMac_Parse32BitIntWithoutSillyComplaints, which will take any=20
reasonable type on the Python side and just return the lower 32 bits.

Actually, I could make that fix *now*, but I would still be stuck with=20=

the stupid warnings:-(
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