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[Yay295]

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[hugovk]

There's an archive of the old Mercurial repo at https://bitbucket-archive.softwareheritage.org/projects/ef/effbot/pil-2009-raclette.html

I have a copy at https://github.com/hugovk/pil-2009-raclette

The commit is "Handle long integers in putpixel/putdata." by Fredrik aka effbot on Apr 25, 2010:

hugovk/pil-2009-raclette@52970c6

Maybe you can find something in the repo metadata at softwareheritage.

[Yay295]

Oh, interesting. It looks like the L suffixes were probably removed when going from Python 2 to 3, which is why there are some duplicate lines in that test now.

[nulano]

Checking the metadata archive from https://bitbucket-archive.softwareheritage.org/projects/ef/effbot/pil-2009-raclette.html, I get no hits with grep for "systemerror", "putpixel", nor "putdata".

I've also tried checking the Image-SIG mailing list archive, but I can't see anything relevant.

[nulano]

The commit is "Handle long integers in putpixel/putdata." by Fredrik aka effbot on Apr 25, 2010:
hugovk/pil-2009-raclette@52970c6

The Pillow version of that commit is c8ce29c from #35:

FIX: Handle long values in _imaging getink

This gets the putdata test case to run correctly under 2.6/2.7. It fixes an
issue where the value 0xFFFFFFFF (which is long in old Python) isn't
recognized and putdata tries to parse it as a tuple.

The original fix comes from Christoph Gohlke. It was adapted to work in
both 2.* and 3.*.

[Yay295]

That seems like the answer to me. I don't know what the exact error report was, but it looks like it was something to do with big numbers and Python 2/3 compatibility.

[radarhere]

#8017 now suggests removing this comment.