My Python annoyances

Leo Kislov Leo.Kislov at gmail.com
Fri May 4 01:23:52 EDT 2007


On May 3, 9:27 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> En Thu, 03 May 2007 10:49:26 -0300, Ben Collver <coll... at peak.org>  
> escribió:
>
> > I tried to write portable Python code.  The zlib CRC function returned  
> > different results on architectures between 32 bit and 64 bit  
> > architectures.  I filed a bug report.  It was closed, without a comment  
> > from the person who closed it.  I get the unspoken message: bug reports  
> > are not welcome.
>
> You got a comment from me, that you never disputed nor commented further.  
> I would have changed the status to "invalid" myself, if I were able to do  
> so.

I think it should have been marked as "won't fix" as it's a wart just
like
1/2 == 0, but as there are many users of the current behaviour it's
"impossible"
to fix it in Python 2.x. Maybe in Python 3.0?

  -- Leo




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