string formatting question

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3a5660f8.626036031 at localhost>,
Victor Muslin <victor at prodigy.net> wrote:
>An integer can be formatted as follows:
>
>	>>> '%d' % 123
>
>How is an infinite precision long integer formatted into a string? If
>The above code:
>
>	>>> '%d' % 123123123123123123L
>
>produces an OverflowError exception. Surely there is something simple
>I am overlooking in the manual, but none of the other format
>specifiers described seemed to be appropriate.

The simplest approach is to use %s.  I've never tried any of the other
format specifiers for long ints.
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