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| Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote Re: Regression: some python library functions return wrong types | #1 |
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This is an upstream change, as a byproduct of issue #10182
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In that bug, a complaint was made that match starts were being truncated on x64 Windows machines, so the types were changed to longs. I can reproduce this with hg tip of the 2.7 branch, and the world will see it whenever 2.7.4 is released. You see it in Ubuntu because we track hg tip, so you're getting this change before 2.7.4 is released.
It's arguably a backward incompatible change to Python 2.7 and perhaps it should be reverted (but it's a tough call). I'll update the Python issue, but I suggest you nosey yourself to it and engage on the change there.
I think your description on this bug is inaccurate since afaict it only affects the re module. I'll update that, but if you know of other apis that are affected, please let me know.