[Python-Dev] Is PEP 237 final -- Unifying Long Integers and Integers

[Scott David Daniels]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 6/17/05, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at verizon.net> wrote:
>>IIRC, there was a decision to not implement phase C and to keep the
>>trailing L in representations of long integers.
> For 2.x, yes. I'm fine with marking it as Final and adding this to PEP
> 3000 instead.

Since PEP 313 has been rejected, the trailing L no longer introduces
ambiguity in the representation of roman(40) vs. roman(10L).

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org