[Python-Dev] test_gzip/test_tarfile failure om AMD64

[Guido van Rossum]

On 5/29/06, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think we should do as Thomas proposes: plan to make it an error in
> > 2.6 (or 2.7 if there's a big outcry, which I don't expect) and accept
> > it with a warning in 2.5.
>
> That's what I arrived at, although 2.4.3's checking behavior is
> actually so inconsistent that "it" needs some defining (what exactly
> are we trying to still accept?  e.g., that -1 doesn't trigger "I"
> complaints but that -1L does above?  that one's surely a bug).

No, it reflects that (up to 2.3 I believe) 0xffffffff was -1 but
0xffffffffL was 4294967295L.

> To be
> clear, Thomas proposed "accepting it" (whatever that means) until 3.0.

Fine with me.

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