New submission from Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com>: The constructor for multiprocessing.RawArray() takes an argument that is either an integer size or a sequence to initialize the contents. To determine if the argument is a size, it uses isinstance(x, int). This means that integers that happen to be Python longs cause an error. On Win64 systems, Python ints are still 32-bits, so valid sizes for arrays sometimes must be represented by Python longs.
Attached is a patch that uses operator.index() to determine if the object can be used as an integer size. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: raw-array-long.diff keywords: patch messages: 132144 nosy: Robert.Kern priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: RawArray does not accept long type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21396/raw-array-long.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11673> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
