How about saving the original value of STR(pnum) and restoring it after 
calling ast_for_atom()?

This is not thread-safe, but I don't understand Python's threading model 
well enough to know whether the GIL is held in this function.

On 6/17/2010 8:40 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
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> Mark Dickinson<dickinsm@gmail.com>  added the comment:
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> Fixed in r82043 (py3k) and r82044 (release31-maint), simply by removing the relevant 'if' block.
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> For 2.x, Antoine (on IRC) pointed out that there might well be third party code that depends on -0x80000000 being an int rather than a long (32-bit machine), so changing that behaviour could cause breakage.
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> Can anyone propose a fix that doesn't change behaviour?
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