hex/oct constants > sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4 and up

[Fredrik Lundh]

Tim Peters wrote:

> > What am I supposed to do to make the warning go away? Rewrite 0x80000000
> > as 0x40000000 * 2 ? ;-)
>
> Write it in a platform-independent way.  If you *intended* this literal to
> mean "a 1 bit followed by 31 zero bits", then stick an L on the end of the
> literal.

...and remove it again when you get to Python 2.5.

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