Hallo, I have a 64 bit server with CentOS 4.3 installed, running Python.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] pymsnt-0.11.2]$ uname -a Linux lutetium.mxit.co.za 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Mar 9 06:23:23 GMT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Consider the following two snippets, issuing a struct.unpack(...) using Python 2.3.4 and Python 2.5 respectively. [EMAIL PROTECTED] pymsnt-0.11.2]$ python Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Oct 17 2006, 10:34:59) [GCC 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import struct >>> print type(struct.unpack(">L", "xxxx")[0]) <type 'int'> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] pymsnt-0.11.2]$ /usr/bin/python2.3 Python 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 17 2005, 21:01:10) [GCC 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import struct >>> print type(struct.unpack(">L", "xxxx")[0]) <type 'long'> >>> I would expect <type 'long'> in both cases. Why is this not so? Regards Pieter Rautenbach -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list