Bugs item #1472695, was opened at 2006-04-18 18:10
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Peter Maxwell (pm67nz)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: 32/64bit pickled Random incompatiblity
Initial Comment:
The unsigned long integers which make up the state of a Random
instance are converted to Python integers via a cast to long in
_randommodule.c's random_getstate function, so on a 32bit platform
Random.getstate() returns a mix of postitive and negative integers, while
on a 64bit platform the negative numbers are replaced by larger positive
numbers, their 32bit-2s-complement equivalents.
As a result, unpicking a Random instance from a 64bit machine on a 32bit
platform produces the error "OverflowError: long int too large to convert
to int". Unpickling a 32bit Random on a 64bit machine succeeds, but the
resulting object is in a slightly confused state:
>>> r32 = cPickle.load(open('r32_3.pickle'))
>>> for i in range(3):
... print r64.random(), r32.random()
...
0.237964627092 4292886520.32
0.544229225296 0.544229225296
0.369955166548 4292886520.19
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>Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2006-04-19 00:02
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Peter, thanks for the report. Do you think you could work
up a patch to correct this problem?
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