Ned Deily added the comment: Doing a quick look, the results vary. Using current python.org 2.7.8 and 3.4.1 installers, the results are correct. These interpreters are built with Apple gcc-4.2 (non-LLVM) from Xcode 3.2.6. Other 2.7 and 3.4.x builds I have available at the moment, including the Apple-supplied Python 2.7, were built with clang LLVM and they all give the incorrect result. $ /usr/bin/python2.7 -c "import sys,struct;print(struct.unpack('????', b'\x00\x01\x02\x03'), sys.version)" ((False, True, False, True), '2.7.5 (default, Mar 9 2014, 22:15:05) \n[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)]')
$ arch -i386 /usr/bin/python2.7 -c "import sys,struct;print(struct.unpack('????', b'\x00\x01\x02\x03'), sys.version)" ((False, True, False, True), '2.7.5 (default, Mar 9 2014, 22:15:05) \n[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)]') $ /usr/local/bin/python2.7 -c "import sys,struct;print(struct.unpack('????', b'\x00\x01\x02\x03'), sys.version)" ((False, True, True, True), '2.7.8 (v2.7.8:ee879c0ffa11, Jun 29 2014, 21:07:35) \n[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]') $ /usr/local/bin/python2.7-32 -c "import sys,struct;print(struct.unpack('????', b'\x00\x01\x02\x03'), sys.version)" ((False, True, True, True), '2.7.8 (v2.7.8:ee879c0ffa11, Jun 29 2014, 21:07:35) \n[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)]') $ /usr/local/bin/python3.4 -c "import sys,struct;print(struct.unpack('????', b'\x00\x01\x02\x03'), sys.version)" (False, True, True, True) 3.4.1 (v3.4.1:c0e311e010fc, May 18 2014, 00:54:21) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] $ /usr/local/bin/python3.4-32 -c "import sys,struct;print(struct.unpack('????', b'\x00\x01\x02\x03'), sys.version)" (False, True, True, True) 3.4.1 (v3.4.1:c0e311e010fc, May 18 2014, 00:54:21) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] $ ./bin/python3.4 -c "import sys,struct;print(struct.unpack('????', b'\x00\x01\x02\x03'), sys.version)" (False, True, False, True) 3.4.1+ (3.4:d6b71971b228, Jul 16 2014, 16:30:56) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.1 (clang-503.0.40)] ---------- nosy: +ned.deily versions: -Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22012> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com