Retry: Question about FutureWarning

[Erik Max Francis]

Steven W. Orr wrote:

> M1.py:268: FutureWarning: hex/oct constants > sys.maxint will
> return positive values in Python 2.4 and up
>    StartTime   = safe_dict_get ( dic, 'starttime', 0xFFFFFFFF )
	...
> import warnings
> warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=FutureWarning)
> 
> My question is this: Why can the warning not be shut off by putting the
> two lines in M1 where the reference exists to 0xFFFFFFFF ?

You really don't want to shut off the warning; it means just what it says:

Python 2.3.5 (#1, Feb  8 2005, 23:36:23)
[GCC 3.2.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> 0xffffffff
<stdin>:1: FutureWarning: hex/oct constants > sys.maxint will return 
positive values in Python 2.4 and up
-1

Python 2.4.3 (#1, Mar 29 2006, 17:16:11)
[GCC 3.2.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> 0xffffffff
4294967295L

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