11-digit integer literal on a 32-bit CPU

[Patrick Phalen]

[Alex, on Mon, 06 Mar 2000]

:: Does this do what you want?
:: 
:: class Transaction_ID:
::     def __init__(self, id_number):
::         self.number = id_number
:: 
::     def __str__(self):
::         output = str(self.number)
::         output = '1' + (10 - len(output)) * '0' + output
::         return output
:: 
::     def next_id(self):
::         return Transaction_ID(self.number + 1)
:: 
:: print Transaction_ID(50)   

Yes! Thanks. That's exactly the sort of cleverness I wasn't coming up
with.