[Python-Dev] Followup - Re: Bad python 2.5 build on OSX 10.8 mountain lion

[Ned Deily]

Way back on 2012-10-05 23:45:11 GMT in article 
<nad-7C84D6.16451105102012 at news.gmane.org>, I wrote:

> In article <nad-B4E67A.00475902102012 at news.gmane.org>,
>  Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> > In article <20121002073135.GA26567 at sleipnir.bytereef.org>,
> >  Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> > > Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> > > > > Forgot the link...
> > > > > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7885
> > > > > On Monday, October 1, 2012, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > > > > As discussed here, the python 2.5 binary distributed by Apple on 
> > > > > > mountain
> > > > > > lion is broken. Could someone file an official complaint?
> > > > I've filed a bug against 10.8 python2.5.   The 10.8 versions of Apple's 
> > > > pythons are compile with clang and we did see some sign extension 
> > > > issues 
> > > > with ctypes.  The 10.7 version of Apple's python2.5 is compiled with 
> > > > llvm-gcc and handles 2**31 correctly.
> > > Yes, this looks like http://bugs.python.org/issue11149 . 
> > Ah, right, thanks.  I've updated the Apple issue accordingly.
> 
> Update: the bug I filed has been closed as a duplicate of #11932488 
> which apparently at the moment is still open.  No other information is 
> available.

FYI, today Apple finally released OS X 10.8.3, the next maintenance 
release of Mountain Lion, and it does include a recompiled version of 
Python 2.5.6 that appears to solve the sign-extension problem:
2**31-1 is now 2147483647L.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org