Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> added the comment: I have never seen this failure on any Apple x86_64 running 10.x including 10.6.8. Could you please report what Mac model you are running on and the output from running the following:
$ uname -m $ /path/to/your/python Python 3.2.1 (v3.2.1:ac1f7e5c0510, Jul 9 2011, 01:03:53) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.maxsize 9223372036854775807 >>> import platform >>> platform.mac_ver() ('10.6.8', ('', '', ''), 'i386') >>> platform._mac_ver_xml() ('10.6.8', ('', '', ''), 'i386') >>> platform._mac_ver_gestalt() # a bug! Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.2/lib/python3.2/platform.py", line 761, in _mac_ver_gestalt return release,versioninfo,machine >>> import os >>> os.uname() ('Darwin', 'fimt.baybryj.net', '10.8.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386', 'i386') Thanks! ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12549> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com