Overflow error seek()ing with float values > (2 ** 31) - 1

[churchr]

BPO	1067756

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labels = ['interpreter-core']
title = 'Overflow error seek()ing with float values > (2 ** 31) - 1'
updated_at = <Date 2004-11-17.01:47:10.000>
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue1067756'
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[churchr]

Passing a floating point value greater than (2**31) - 1
yields the exception:

OverflowError: long int too long to convert to int

# e.g.,

fh = open("/dev/zero", "rb")
fh.seek((2.0 ** 31) - 1)   # <--- works fine.

fh = open("/dev/zero", "rb")
fh.seek(2.0 ** 31)  # <--- throws the above  exception.

# Contrast with the behaviour with integers:

fh.seek(2 ** 31)  # works fine
fh.seek((2 ** 63) - 1)  # works fine
fh.seek(2 ** 63)  # throws the exception

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Dupe of 1067728