[Twisted-Python] Re: [Twisted-commits] CVS: Twisted/twisted/python otp.py,NONE,1.1

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

Moshe Zadka wrote:

> Was there a good reason you reimplemented the struct module in Python?

Yes, struct can't deal with arbitarily long integers:

 >>> struct.pack("L", 299999999999999999999999999999999999999999l)
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<console>", line 1, in ?
OverflowError: long int too long to convert