Retry: Question about FutureWarning

[Steven W. Orr]

Thanks guys, but that's not my question. The question is this: Why does 
the call to filterwarnings not work if it's placed inside the M1 module? 
Why do I have to place the call in M4 to make it work? This is more a 
question about how import works than it is about what the value of -1 is. 
;-)

On Tuesday, Aug 14th 2007 at 18:49 -0700, quoth Erik Max Francis:

=>Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>
=>> M1.py:268: FutureWarning: hex/oct constants > sys.maxint will
=>> return positive values in Python 2.4 and up
=>>    StartTime   = safe_dict_get ( dic, 'starttime', 0xFFFFFFFF )
=>	...
=>> import warnings
=>> warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=FutureWarning)
=>> 
=>> My question is this: Why can the warning not be shut off by putting the
=>> two lines in M1 where the reference exists to 0xFFFFFFFF ?
=>
=>You really don't want to shut off the warning; it means just what it says:
=>
=>Python 2.3.5 (#1, Feb  8 2005, 23:36:23)
=>[GCC 3.2.3] on linux2
=>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
=> >>> 0xffffffff
=><stdin>:1: FutureWarning: hex/oct constants > sys.maxint will return 
=>positive values in Python 2.4 and up
=>-1
=>
=>Python 2.4.3 (#1, Mar 29 2006, 17:16:11)
=>[GCC 3.2.3] on linux2
=>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
=> >>> 0xffffffff
=>4294967295L
=>

On Wednesday, Aug 15th 2007 at 06:10 -0700, quoth Paul McGuire:

=>On Aug 14, 8:49 pm, Erik Max Francis <m... at alcyone.com> wrote:
=>
=>So if by '0xFFFFFFFF' you meant -1, then change this line to use -1.
=>Otherwise, if you really meant 4294967295L, leave it at 0xFFFFFFFF and
=>move on.
=>
=>-- Paul
=>
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