Large integers from C

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> Convert to hexadecimal and do intval = int(hexval, 16).
> Really, no joke.

You probably meant long(str, base):

>>> int('fffffffffffffffffffffffffff', 16)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: int() literal too large: fffffffffffffffffffffffffff
>>> long('fffffffffffffffffffffffffff', 16)
324518553658426726783156020576255L
>>> 

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Gustavo Niemeyer

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