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

[John Baxter]

In article <slrnasj332.v3h.jon+usenet at snowy.squish.net>,
 Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet at unequivocal.co.uk> wrote:

> I don't really like the idea of hacking around with the warning
> module, so I guess I'll replace 0x80000000 with (-0x7fffffff-1) which
> won't generate a warning on any version of Python and will work on all
> versions... I think ;-)

64bit integers?

  --John