Long int to int

[Remco Gerlich]

Tim Howarth <tim at worthy.demon.co.uk> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> All I want is a=b ! but lose longness of b !

That's simply not possible with a=0xFFFFFFFFL, since 0xFFFFFFFF is too large
for an int, and if b=-1 then a!=b.

What you're looking for is an int that has the same bit pattern as the
unsigned int would have, and people gave several solutions for that,
although they're not very straightforward; so it goes.

Bit shifting is for C, not Python, imo.
-- 
Remco Gerlich