[Python-Dev] str(1L) -> '1' ?

[Jim Fulton]

In November there was an interesting discussion on comp.lang.python 
about the meaning of __str__ and __repr__.  One tidbit that came out
of this discussion was that __str__ for longs should drop the trailing 
'L'. Was there a decision on this? I'd really like this to happen.

We do alot of work with RDBMS systems and long integers seem to
come up alot with these systems (as do other fix-decimal number, 
but that's another topic ;).  For example, our latest Sybase and
Oracle support in Zope returns long integers for RDBMS types
like NUMBER(10,0).  The trailing 'L' in the string representation
is causeing us some headaches.  This seems also to be an issue when
using the current standard ODBC interface with Oracle, as indicated
in a DB-SIG post today.

Jim

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