[Python-Dev] Negative long literals (was Re: Does Python need a '>>>' operator?)

[Greg Ewing]

> 1xc00 "shows the bits" more clearly even in such
> an easy case.

Except that, if we're thinking in hex, it's not a 1-filled
bit string, it's an F-filled bit string! So it should be
Fxc00 :-)

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