overflowerror when calling direct.stdpy.file.seek with high numbers

[laurin]

when using direct.stdpy.file, calling seek(pos) with pos > = 2**31 raises the following error:
"OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C long"

note that the same call works when using python's native file implementation

seems to me like panda3d is using 32bit integers here, preventing seek calls on the end of large files...

[rdb (rdb)]

Are you on a 32-bit system or a 64-bit system? Windows? Linux?

[rdb (rdb)]

This turned out to be a bug in the Python binding generator, which incorrectly recorded the type of C++ streamoff/streamsize. I've checked in a fix now.

Note that due to limitations in Microsoft's iostream implementation, it will still not be possible to seek large values on 32-bit Windows with this function. All other platforms should be fine.

Thanks for reporting the issue!