[Pythonmac-SIG] A little x-platform issue...

[Richard Gordon]

I decided to take a swing at getting the adzapper.py proxy server 
(based on Medusa) running on a Mac and have stumbled thru various 
problems but am greatly puzzled by what happens when it hits a line 
that uses int(time.time()). On the Mac, Python chokes and returns a 
float overflow (or words to that effect) error, while both mkLinux 
and OpenBSD don't seem to mind. Exploring this a little further, I 
see that time.time() returns a value with 3 places to the right of 
the decimal on the *nix boxes while the Mac returns xxxxxxxxx.0. In 
my simple world, the Mac's value is already an integer so I just got 
rid of the int() part only to be foiled by something else later, but 
I was wondering what the deal is here? Why does this result in a 
float overflow?

The denouement is that I got tired of fighting with this and just set 
it up on OpenBSD, but I'd still like to know why this happened. 
Thanks.

Richard Gordon
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