7 May
2008
7 May
'08
9:42 p.m.
Rasmus Andersson rasmus@spotify.com writes:
Could you maybe give a real-world scenario where this would be needed?
It is needed when writing Python numbers to a file and reading them back, reliably. In that case strtoll and friends won't work because, while they work on one data type, they fail on others (float, complex, and (Python) long in the case of strtoll).