[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib xmlrpclib.py,1.11,1.12 (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy@zope.com
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:16:53 -0400 (EDT)

"SM" == Skip Montanaro <montanaro@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

SM> Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Lib In directory SM> usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv25433

SM> Modified Files: SM> xmlrpclib.py SM> Log Message: allow long ints to be marshalled as ints - no check SM> is made to the incoming value, so the programmer will have to SM> catch OverflowError.

How does the other end unmarshal it? You shouldn't get overflow errors any more.

Oh, well, actually you do still get overflow and value errors from the builtin int(). I wonder if there should be a generic number-from-string conversion function that returns either a long or an int as needed. If an integer literal in your program text can produce a long, why can't builtin int()?

Jeremy