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Author	pitrou
Recipients	Matt.Mackall, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, josh.r, larry, loewis, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date	2014-04-13.16:43:45
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Message-id	<1397407425.3.0.630526037792.issue21199@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> Antoine: Inability to perform a 2GB+ read properly is not something > that should be worked around on a case by case basis. Really we are talking about Python 2.7 here. Anyone having this problem has to work it around in order for their code to work on published versions. The benefit of fixing this in the next 2.7.x iteration is small compared to the cost of a potential regression in the core I/O implementation.

> Antoine: Inability to perform a 2GB+ read properly is not something
> that should be worked around on a case by case basis.

Really we are talking about Python 2.7 here. Anyone having this problem *has* to work it around in order for their code to work on published versions. The benefit of fixing this in the next 2.7.x iteration is small compared to the cost of a potential regression in the core I/O implementation.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-04-13 16:43:45	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, loewis, ncoghlan, larry, benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, Matt.Mackall, josh.r
2014-04-13 16:43:45	pitrou	set	messageid: <1397407425.3.0.630526037792.issue21199@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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2014-04-13 16:43:45	pitrou	create