[New-bugs-announce] [issue7249] Consider allowing io.BytesIO sizes to be passed as 'long' in 2.6

[Ryan Leslie]

New submission from Ryan Leslie <rylesny at gmail.com>:

py> StringIO.StringIO("foo").read(long(1))
'f'

py> io.BytesIO("foo").read(long(1))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: integer argument expected, got 'long'

This is known to cause problems when reading zip data from a BytesIO
object with zipfile. See this recent thread on comp.lang.python:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/337c1b8a48e8acae/

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 94818
nosy: ryles
severity: normal
status: open
title: Consider allowing io.BytesIO sizes to be passed as 'long' in 2.6
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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