'long int too large to convert to int' in 'garbage collection' ignored

[Skip Montanaro]

    Peter> FutureWarning: hex/oct constants > sys.maxint will return
    Peter> positive values in Python 2.4 and up

You can suppress this warning.  I don't know the implications downstream
though.  You should read through the 2.3-related docs.  This page looks
particularly useful:

    http://www.python.org/doc/2.3/whatsnew/node22.html

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