Can Python 1.5.2 code run on Python 2.x?

[Erik Max Francis]

Laura Creighton wrote:

> Big change ... string conversion of long int no longer tacks an L on
> the end.  Since I just ripped off the last digit wholesale all over
> this code, I have many lines to change.

Use repr instead.

max at charmaine:~% python
Python 2.0 (#5, Nov 10 2000, 21:47:15) 
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
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>>> l = 299792458l      
>>> l
299792458L
>>> str(l)
'299792458'
>>> repr(l)
'299792458L'

This change in string conversions of longs was one of the documentation
changes, by the way.

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