[Zope-dev] strange overflowerror "long int too large to convert"

[Dieter Maurer]

Tobias Herp writes:
 > we have a Zope-based (v2.5.0) editorial system running on a server of our
 > customer's; it uses a ZUserFolder to store eMail addresses of the top-level
 > users. Last week, an error turned up whenever the system tried to
 > automatically send a notification eMail, which said:
 > 
 > Error Type: OverflowError
 > Error Value: long int too large to convert
 > ...
 >     (Object: /opt/zope/var/Data.fs)
 >   File /data/opt/Zope-2.5.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZODB/FileStorage.py, line
 > 1902, in _loadBack
Look at line 1902 in "FileStorage.py".

  There, something tries to convert a long int, but its value is too large.


Dieter