[ python-Bugs-1455357 ] Incompatible size for long (int) in Python Win and Linux?

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Bugs item #1455357, was opened at 2006-03-21 08:08
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Category: None
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Michael Yanowitz (yanowitz)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Incompatible size for long (int) in Python Win and Linux?

Initial Comment:
   There appears to be a problem with 
packing/unpacking long (and int) values when sending 
data from Windows to Linux.
   I am not sure if it is a bug or just due to 
incompatibleness. Normally we think of long as being 4 
bytes. However, on Linux, it might be 8 bytes (in 
Python).

Here are good results in Windows, packing and 
unpacking a long:
$ python
Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 
32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for 
more information.
>>> import struct
>>> p = struct.pack("L", 12345)
>>> p
'90\x00\x00'
>>> u = struct.unpack("L",p)
>>> u
(12345L,)

 However, on Linux, I get slightly different results:

Python 2.4.1 (#1, May 16 2005, 15:15:14)
[GCC 4.0.0 20050512 (Red Hat 4.0.0-5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for 
more information>>> import struct
>>> p = struct.pack("L", 12345)
>>> p
'90\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'
>>> u = struct.unpack("L",p)
>>> u
(12345L,)
 

   This is annoying, because I want to be able to
send data from Windows to Linux (and vice-versa)
over a socket. I am new to Python, and the only
way I know of of doing that is by packing and
unpacking the data.
  
   Please email me m.yanowitz at kearfott.com if this
isn't a bug or there is a known work-around for
this problem.


Thanks in advance:
Michael Yanowitz



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