[Python-Dev] test_gzip/test_tarfile failure om AMD64

[Delaney, Timothy (Tim)]

Thomas Wouters wrote:

> If 2.5 warns and does the old thing, the upgrade path is easy and
> defendable. This is also why there are future statements -- I
> distinctly recall making the same argument back then :-) The cost of
> continuing the misfeatures in struct for one release does not weigh
> up to the cost of breaking compatibility unwarned.

This really sounds to me like a __future__ import would be useful to get
the fixed behaviour.

Tim Delaney