[python-win32] writing long integer values to Excel

[S Murthy Kambhampaty]

I got the impression from table 12-1 of "Python
Programming on Win32" that writing 3 *(10 **9) to
Excel would succeed, but it seems to overflow, while
writing 3.0 *(10 **9) succeeds.  Is this standard
behavior, or perhaps a bug?

Environment:
Windows 2000
Python 2.4.2
pywin32-207

Thanks for the help,
   Murthy

Steps to replicate:

from win32com.client import Dispatch
xlApp=Dispatch("Excel.Application")
xlApp.Visible=1
xlBook=xlApp.Workbooks.Add()
xlBook.Sheets(1).Range("B2").Value=3 *10 **9 # Excel
stores -1294967296
xlBook.Sheets(1).Range("B2").Value=3.0 *10 **9 # Excel
stores 3000000000

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