[Python-Dev] Negated hex/oct constants (SF #660455)

[Michael Hudson]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

>> >>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
>> 
>>     GvR> The bad thing is that this bug is already in all versions of
>>     GvR> Python 2.2, as well as in Python 2.3a1.
>> 
>> So how did you find it?  Was a bug report or random noodling?  Was
>> someone actually bit by it?  I'm curious but I don't have a
>> recommendation since I'd never write something like this (hex
>> constants always seem unsigned to me).
>> 
>> -Barry
>
> I don't recall how I found it -- I think someone mentioned it to me.

Theres an -020000000000000000000000000000000000 in test_grammar[1].
Given this thread, I'm rather unclear what it's testing.  The compiler
module compiles it differently to the builtin compiler.

Cheers,
M.

[1] I may not have got the number of zeros correct :)

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