int and long limit for python2

[remkonoteboom]

This seems to be a problem with the python implementation of XMLRPC.  It should understand that the data can come from different sources that may have different definition of int, especially since there is such a large int limitation in python2.  In the xmlrpc code, they should have something like:

Code:

try:
  value = int(input)
except WhateverException:
  value = long(input)

This would solve the problem for XMLRPC.  Since this is all fixed in Python 3, I don't know if there is much of an appetite  to fix this in Python2.

Since you do have control over what you are sending from the client, I think this is the only place you have the opportunity to circumvent the problem, even if you have to use the less than ideal solution of converting to a string and then converting back to a long.