>>> "import site failed" >>> OverflowError: signed integer is greater than the maximum.
>> - what is the value of ival? > ival: 4294967295 I see. This is 0xFFFFFFFF, which would be -1 if it were of type int. So perhaps some value got cast incorrectly at some point, breaking subsequent computations > >> - where does that number come from? > > It is coming from the call to PyInt_AsLong. In that function there is > a call to: > PyInt_AS_LONG((PyIntObject*)op) > which returns the value of ival. That was not my question, really. I wanted to know where the object whose AsLong value was taken came from. And before you say "it's in the arg parameter" of convertsimple() - sure it is. However, how did it get there? It's in an argument tuple - and where came that from? IOW, you really need to know who the caller of convertsimple is, and what line of Python code precisely was triggering that call. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
