tell producing long int

[Robin Becker]

Paul Eddington reports a problem with reportlab caused by tell --> L
ints

The machine was an 32 bit SG O2 running IRIX6.3 using python compiled 
with the n32 option. It does appear to be a problem with the tell. As 
you can see below:

Python 1.5.2+ (#1, Oct 27 1999, 13:48:24) [C] on irix6-n32
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> f = open('test.dat','w')
>>> f.write('a test')
>>> f.tell()
6L

Anyone know if this is a reasonable way to build python or is it a
property of the os that tell produces L ints?
-- 
Robin Becker