Dec. 2, 2003
1:27 p.m.
On Monday 01 December 2003 08:10 pm, Guido van Rossum wrote: This pretty much makes PEP 237
finished except for the complete and utter eradication of the trailing 'L' (and probably of the 'long' type altogether) in Python 3.0.
Would there still be an int type and a long type in Python 3.0, or would the notion of a long be be dropped. If it were dropped, then the int representation would be transparently represented as a long if the size of the number could not fit in an int. If long is dropped then the long function could be added to the list of builtins that will disappear in Python 3.0.