[Python-Dev] int/long FutureWarning (original) (raw)

Martin v. L�wis martin@v.loewis.de
28 Nov 2002 11:44:12 +0100

Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> writes:

I've been sick and tired of these warnings, especially since in 99.9% of the cases that you get the warning it is meaningless (as we are really taking about bitpatterns that have a special meaning in some C API). I personally haven't seen a single instance of the warning making sense.

I found that all those warnings are correct: in particular when the constant is a bit pattern in some C API.

It means that your code will break in Python 2.4, unless you take corrective action (which you cannot take at the moment). It will break because ParseTuple will raise an OverflowError.

Regards, Martin