[Python-bugs-list] Operator breakage with long int operands (PR#187)

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Full_Name: Randall Hopper
Version: 1.5.2
OS: IRIX 6.5
Submission from: ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov (134.67.66.44)


This came up a few weeks ago, and bit again in the dumbdbm module last week.
In the dumbdbm module in 1.5.2:

     '\0'*(npos-pos)

(npos-pos) on some OSs will be a long int.  However, the '*' operator won't 
handle a long int.  I can't think of a reason why 'a'*10L should be invalid,
for example.

At issue a few weeks ago was long ints and the '%' operator.  For example:

    >>> str( 0x80000000L )
    '2147483648L'
    >>> "%ld" % 0x80000000L
    OverflowError: long int too long to convert

    >>> hex( 0x80000000L )
    '0x80000000L'
    >>> "%lX" % 0x80000000L
    OverflowError: long int too long to convert

Couldn't % use hex() and str() under the hood, for instance?