On 29 Dec 2005 19:14:36 -0800, Josh Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a class that wraps a large file and tries to make it look like a >string w.r.t. slicing. Here, "large file" means on the order of >hundreds of GB. All the slicing/indexing stuff through __getitem__() >works fine, but len() is quite broken. It seems to be converting the >value returned by __len__() to a 32-bit integer. If the conversion >yields a negative number, it raises an exception. > >I'm running Python 2.4.1 on an Opteron running RedHat FC3. It's a >64-bit processor, and Python ints appear to be 64-bit as well, so even >if len() only works with ints, it should still be able to handle 64-bit >values.
Conspicuous timing: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/059266.html> Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
