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Author	mthibaut
Recipients	christian.heimes, giampaolo.rodola, gvanrossum, mthibaut
Date	2008-01-01.21:40:07
SpamBayes Score	0.23406069
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Message-id	<1199223608.12.0.898348270275.issue1711@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Guido, the problem is that my python foo is severely lacking - but I'll have a stab at it. Python believes that the number coming back from the C library is negative. We can fool it by packing the "signed short" into a system-native format, and then unpacking it explicitly into an unsigned short. So I propose to do precisely that on big endian systems using sys.byteorder: wrap these functions with a converter. Would that be acceptible?

Guido, the problem is that my python foo is severely lacking - but I'll
have a stab at it.

Python believes that the number coming back from the C library is
negative. We can fool it by packing the "signed short" into a
system-native format, and then unpacking it explicitly into an unsigned
short. So I propose to do precisely that on big endian systems using
sys.byteorder: wrap these functions with a converter. Would that be
acceptible?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-01 21:40:08	mthibaut	set	spambayes_score: 0.234061 -> 0.23406069 recipients: + mthibaut, gvanrossum, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes
2008-01-01 21:40:08	mthibaut	set	spambayes_score: 0.234061 -> 0.234061 messageid: <1199223608.12.0.898348270275.issue1711@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2008-01-01 21:40:07	mthibaut	create