[Python-Dev] Followup - Re: Bad python 2.5 build on OSX 10.8 mountain lion (original) (raw)

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Fri Mar 15 06:55:10 CET 2013

Way back on 2012-10-05 23:45:11 GMT in article <nad-7C84D6.16451105102012 at news.gmane.org>, I wrote:

In article <nad-B4E67A.00475902102012 at news.gmane.org>, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote: > In article <20121002073135.GA26567 at sleipnir.bytereef.org>, > Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote: > > Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote: > > > > Forgot the link... > > > > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7885 > > > > On Monday, October 1, 2012, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > > > As discussed here, the python 2.5 binary distributed by Apple on > > > > > mountain > > > > > lion is broken. Could someone file an official complaint? > > > I've filed a bug against 10.8 python2.5. The 10.8 versions of Apple's > > > pythons are compile with clang and we did see some sign extension > > > issues > > > with ctypes. The 10.7 version of Apple's python2.5 is compiled with > > > llvm-gcc and handles 2**31 correctly. > > Yes, this looks like http://bugs.python.org/issue11149 . > Ah, right, thanks. I've updated the Apple issue accordingly.

Update: the bug I filed has been closed as a duplicate of #11932488 which apparently at the moment is still open. No other information is available.

FYI, today Apple finally released OS X 10.8.3, the next maintenance release of Mountain Lion, and it does include a recompiled version of Python 2.5.6 that appears to solve the sign-extension problem: 2**31-1 is now 2147483647L.

-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org

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