
Nov. 2, 2009
3:49 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla@molden.no> wrote:
Why does this happen?
type(2**31-1) <type 'long'>
Does that not happen on non-Windows platforms? 2**31 can't be represented as a 32-bit signed integer, so it's automatically promoted to a long. -- Curt Hagenlocher curt@hagenlocher.org