[Python-Dev] Fun with numbers

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Tim, Jeremy, and I are having so much fun...
:)
-Barry

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Python 2.3a0 (#14, Apr 23 2002, 18:26:18) 
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.2 2.96-0.76mdk)] on linux2
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>>> 3 .__class__
<type 'int'>
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>>> 3 .__class__ = int
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>>> 3 .__class__ = float
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: __class__ assignment: 'float' object layout differs from 'int'
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>>> 3 .__class__ = bool
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>>> 3
True
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>>> 3L .__class__ = int
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: 'long' object has only read-only attributes (assign to .__class__)
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>>> 23000 .__class__ = bool
Debug memory block at address p=0x814f544:
    485823496 bytes originally requested
    the 4 pad bytes at p-4 are not all FORBIDDENBYTE (0xfb):
        at p-4: 0x7a *** OUCH
        at p-3: 0x61 *** OUCH
        at p-2: 0xc8 *** OUCH
        at p-1: 0x3c *** OUCH
    the 4 pad bytes at tail=0x250a094c are Segmentation fault