[Python-Dev] "result type only depends on operand types"...?
Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:58:07 -0500
> Channeling Guido: this isn't an "exception", this is a phased step in
> the progress toward unifying ints and longs.
You say it so much better than I could. :-)
> Eventually, the distinction will go away except for explicitly
> declared platform ints, and an overflow error on a platform int will
> once again raise an exception rather than transforming
> automatically.
Um, what's a platform int? Unless you're talking about a NumPy
feature?
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)