ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t

[Former user]

We’ve run into this exception with the attached plist, but only on a 32-bit Python.

"ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t”

Here’s one workaround (use timedelta).

https://github.com/obspy/obspy/issues/805#issuecomment-44095353

[Nate Lawson]

Patch using the suggested strategy. Now loads the attached plist fine on 32-bit python.

[Andrew Wooster]

With the patch applied, I get the following error when running the unit tests:

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ERROR: testDatetime (test_write.TestWritePlist)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/andrew/Projects/bitbucket/biplist/tests/test_write.py", line 93, in testDatetime
    self.roundTrip([now])
  File "/Users/andrew/Projects/bitbucket/biplist/tests/test_write.py", line 19, in roundTrip
    plist = writePlistToString(root, binary=(not xml))
  File "/Users/andrew/Projects/bitbucket/biplist/biplist/__init__.py", line 174, in writePlistToString
    writer.writeRoot(rootObject)
  File "/Users/andrew/Projects/bitbucket/biplist/biplist/__init__.py", line 500, in writeRoot
    output = self.writeObject(wrapped_root, output, setReferencePosition=True)
  File "/Users/andrew/Projects/bitbucket/biplist/biplist/__init__.py", line 699, in writeObject
    output = self.writeObject(objRef, output, setReferencePosition=True)
  File "/Users/andrew/Projects/bitbucket/biplist/biplist/__init__.py", line 671, in writeObject
    timestamp -= apple_reference_date_offset
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -=: 'int' and 'datetime.datetime'

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[Nate Lawson]

Sorry, didn’t handle the encoding case. Patch updated and bonus is the logic comes out cleaner.

[Andrew Wooster]

Fixes #5 ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t

→ <<cset 4f58159ef482>>

[Andrew Wooster]

This is now in release 0.9 available on PyPi. Thanks!