LongInt-to-String % Bug (was Re: Python plugin)
Randall Hopper
aa8vb at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 11 10:49:27 EST 2000
Samuel A. Falvo II:
|To be fair, Python isn't without its numerical faults either. For example:
|
|>>> data = string.atol( stringArgument[0:8] )
|>>> print "%08lX" % (data)
|
|will fault on any integral value greater than 0x7FFFFFFF. Why? Because
|Python just plain can't understand the concept of an unsigned integer.
That's odd, especially considering str() and hex() can cut the mustard.
I don't see a bug report in the database for this; you might want to file one:
http://www.python.org/search/search_bugs.html
>>> str( 0x80000000L )
'2147483648L'
>>> "%ld" % 0x80000000L
OverflowError: long int too long to convert
>>> hex( 0x80000000L )
'0x80000000L'
>>> "%lX" % 0x80000000L
OverflowError: long int too long to convert
LibCh2:
"The size specifiers h, l , or L may be present but are ignored"
No caveats about long ints though.
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Randall Hopper
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