FWIW, Martijn is correct. Python 2.4 does not like values > 2**31-1 for list indexes, slices, e.a. even on 64 bit systems. I have disabled the respective test runs.
Stefan On 01.11.2009, at 14:43, Martijn Pieters wrote: > 2009/10/31 Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com>: >> I can't reproduce this failure when running the Acquisition 2.12.4 >> tests >> with Python 2.4 on my machine. > > This is python 2.4 on 64-bit linux. I bet it's because of: > > typedef int Py_ssize_t; > > and sys.maxint overflows to -1 with that definition. I suspect that > all open-ended slicing ops in Python C extensions are borken in python > 2.4, because it doesn't have Py_ssize_t. -- Stefan H. Holek ste...@epy.co.at _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
