Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 12:14 PM 9/29/2005 -0400, Viren Shah wrote: > >> File "/root/svn-install-apps/setuptools-0.6a4/pkg_resources.py", >> line 949, in _get >> return self.loader.get_data(path) >> OverflowError: signed integer is greater than maximum > > > Interesting. That looks like it might be a bug in the Python zipimport > module, which is what implements get_data(). Apparently it happens upon > importing as well; I assumed that it was a bytecode incompatibility. > > Checking the revision log, I find that there's a 64-bit fix for > zipimport.c in Python 2.4 that looks like it would fix this issue, but > it has not been backported to any revision of Python 2.3. You're going > to either have to backport the fix yourself and rebuild Python 2.3, or > upgrade to Python 2.4. Sorry. :(
Cool! Thanks for the solution. I'll upgrade to python 2.4 and hope it works :-) Thanks for all your help Viren -- Viren R Shah Sr. Technical Advisor Virtual Technology Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: 703-333-6246 _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
