Integer Overflow

[Fernando Pérez]

Hans Nowak wrote:

> Ursus Horibilis wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a way to force the Python run time system to ignore
>> integer overflows?  I was trying to write a 32-bit Linear
>> Congruential Pseudo Random Number Generator
> 
 
> Use longs:

Not sure if that will work for him: longs are precisely 'long', and he may 
need the 32-bitness of the ints (it is a 32-bit LCPRNG, after all). Also, 
unless this is just an academic exercise, speed may be critical. For real 
world use, speed *is* critical in RNGs. Longs are dog slow.

Cheers,

f