Python 1.5.2 and large files (Solaris 7)

[Hrvoje Niksic]

"Fred L. Drake" <fdrake at cnri.reston.va.us> writes:

> Andreas Jung <ajung at sz-sb.de> wrote:
>  > Does Python 1.5.2 support to read/write files larger than 2GB under
>  > Solaris 7 ?
> 
> Fredrik Lundh writes:
>  > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/todo.py?req=all#2.25
>  > seems to imply that it does.
> 
>   See also:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/posix-large-files.html
> 
>   This page includes the compile flags you need for Solaris.

I'm happy to report that I actually tried to compile with these flags
and it seemed to work nicely.  os.stat() behaved as expected with a
large file.

The only thing I don't like is that Long is returned even when the
size of a file is less than 2G.  I'm not sure if that's a bug or a
feature, or what the consequences are.