Weird 'and' result...

[Artur M. Piwko]

pipen at demon:/tmp/ekg-1.1rc1$ python
Python 2.2.3 (#1, Jun  4 2003, 02:54:59)
[GCC 3.3 (Debian)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> "%08x" % (0xea7ee5ccea7 & 0xffffffff)
'ea7ee5ccea7'
>>>

And it should be 'ee5ccea7'. Am I missing something?

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