[Python-Dev] test_gzip/test_tarfile failure om AMD64

[Fredrik Lundh]

Thomas Wouters wrote:

> I know which 'it' I meant: the same 'it' as struct already accepts in 
> Python 2.4 and before. Yes, it's inconsistent between formatcodes and 
> valuetypes -- fixing that the whole point of the change -- but that's 
> how you define 'compatibility'; struct, by default, should do what it 
> did for Python 2.4, for all operating modes.

that's how you define compatibility for bug fix releases in Python.  2.5 
is not 2.4.4.

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