[omniORB] Client recieves omniORB.CORBA.BAD_PARAM when receiving long.

[Stephen White]

Using omniORBpy on Linux, I have a server which returns a single field 
defined in IDL as "long".  Picking a value out of the air, if the server 
returns 131 the client is fine, but if the server returns  131L   the 
client receives  omniORB.CORBA.BAD_PARAM.  Shouldn't omniORB recognize 
the Python long as an appropriate IDL long?  Or am I not understanding 
something?  A simple code example is below:

In the IDL file I simply have:
   void getLong();

The client
    .......
    x = servant.getLong()
    print x

The Server

     def getLong(self):
       x = 131
       return x  
       # this works fine

      def getLong(self):
         x = long(131)    #or  x = 131L
         return x
         # client will fail with omniORB.CORBA.BAD_PARAM

Thank you

Stephen P. White