[Python-Dev] Bad python 2.5 build on OSX 10.8 mountain lion

[Ned Deily]

In article <20121002073135.GA26567 at sleipnir.bytereef.org>,
 Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> > > Forgot the link...
> > > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7885
> > > 
> > > On Monday, October 1, 2012, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > 
> > > > As discussed here, the python 2.5 binary distributed by Apple on 
> > > > mountain
> > > > lion is broken. Could someone file an official complaint? This is 
> > > > really
> > > > bad...
> > 
> > I've filed a bug against 10.8 python2.5.   The 10.8 versions of Apple's 
> > pythons are compile with clang and we did see some sign extension issues 
> > with ctypes.  The 10.7 version of Apple's python2.5 is compiled with 
> > llvm-gcc and handles 2**31 correctly.
> Yes, this looks like http://bugs.python.org/issue11149 .

Ah, right, thanks.  I've updated the Apple issue accordingly.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org