Long int to int

[Tim Howarth]

In message <7xeljsp90d.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>
          Paul Rubin <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> wrote:

> Tim Howarth <tim at worthy.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > (Or worse, I can convert with eval
> > 
> > a = str(hex(a))[2:-1]
> > a = eval('0x'+a)
> 
>   a = eval('0x%x' % a)
> 
> might be a little more palatable.  

Nicer but I'm not sure that it works, I want

0xFFFFFFFFL
to become
-1

besides I grew up believeing eval==evil.


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