int vs long

[Douglas Woodrow]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:50:14, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote
>>>
>>> This is fixed in Python2.5:
>>>
>> Hm, my test above was from 2.5!?
>
>Then your installation is broken. What does
>
>>>> import itertools
>>>> itertools
><module 'itertools' from
>'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/itertools.so'>
>
>print?


Maybe it's a problem with the Windows build of Python 2.5

,----
| Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310
| 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
| Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
| >>> import sys
| >>> import itertools
| >>> itertools
| <module 'itertools' (built-in)>
| >>> c = itertools.count(sys.maxint)
| >>> c.next()
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
| OverflowError: cannot count beyond LONG_MAX
| >>>
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Doug Woodrow