Unusual Event.eventid Numbers Like -2147481364 In Python Using Win32evtlog From Pywin32

I wrote a python(3.2) script to ban ips on certain events from the event logs on a Windows 2008 server and I was trying to test if it would ban ips from sql brute forcing attempts

Solution 1:

if you check it binary the function works fine, it just added 1 bit (or more, didn't really check it) that you don't need. try to put the answer through "AND" like this:

answer=event.EventID & 0x1FFFFFFF