Occasionally os.utime can fail with a TypeError:

# python
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Dec 16 2002, 02:51:47)
[GCC 3.2.1] on linux2
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more information.
>>> import os,time
>>>
os.utime("/backup/test/interhost/ace/.maildir-sent/cur/rdiff-backup.tmp.1980",
... (time.time(), 1038064008));
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in ?
TypeError: utime() arg 2 must be a tuple (atime, mtime)

if one of the elements in the time pair is a float and
not a long.  Strangely it seems to work sporadically. 
It may just be a documentation problem -- add a note in
the docs saying longs are required, and then have the
TypeError say:

TypeError: utime() arg 2 must be a tuple of longs
(atime, mtime)

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Ben, I can't reproduce this problem with 2.2.3 or 2.3.  Can
you verify this is still a problem?

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Hmm, I'm not seeing it now.  Was very strange to begin with,
hope (for personal sanity) that it existed to begin with. 
Closing...