On May 30, 2006, at 11:19 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On 5/30/06, Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bob Ippolito wrote: >> >> > It seems that we should convert the crc32 functions in binascii, >> > zlib, etc. to deal with unsigned integers. >> >> +1!! > > Seems ok, except I don't know what the backwards incompatibilities > would be... >
I think the only compatibility issues we're going to run into are with the struct module in the way of DeprecationWarning. If people are depending on specific negative values for these, then their code should already be broken on 64-bit platforms. The only potential breakage I can see is if they're passing these values to other functions written in C that expect PyInt_AsLong(n) to work with the values (on 32-bit platforms). I can't think of a use case for that beyond the functions themselves and the struct module. -bob _______________________________________________ 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
