looking for 2.1.3 Windows binary with large file support

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Tue Nov 25 14:17:46 EST 2003


[Mathew]
> the version that is distributed with Zope/Plone does not handle large
> files.

Sorry, no version of Python 2.1 exists that supports large files on Windows.
Adding support for that required substantial Windows-specific changes to the
Python core, and 2.2.3 is the first Python version in which Windows
largefile support was essentially complete (2.2 had most of it in place, but
a few things were missing, like file.truncate(integer_bigger_than_2_gig)).

Note that Zope 2.7 and Zope3 are skipping the 2.2 line -- they'll both
require 2.3.2+.






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