Python 1.5.2 and large files (Solaris 7)

[Hrvoje Niksic]

"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:

> > However, I don't feel that strongly about it. Anyone else?
> 
> When I get back a position from f.tell() and add 1017 to it, knowing
> a priori that the sum is also a valid position for the file, I don't
> ever want to see an OverflowError.

That's a good argument.

> I hope Python2 obliterates the user-visibile distinction between
> ints and longs,

Are there plans for doing that?  It would be really nice if
sys.maxint+1 produced a long.