Does Python need a '>>>' operator?

[Jon Ribbens]

In article <3cbb996d at news.mhogaming.com>, Ken Peek wrote:
>| So you think that:
>|
>|   long(hex(-1l), 16)
>|
>| should not equal -1 but, err, some random choice of 15, 255, 4095,
>| 65535, etc?
> 
> No, since we are "unifying" the int and long type, it is none
> of your business HOW they are stored-- so we do away with the
> 'int()' and 'long()' functions...

So you think that:

  number(hex(-1), 16)

should not equal -1 but, err, some random choice of 15, 255, 4095,
65535, etc?