Long overflow problem

[Gerhard Häring]

In article <bondpaper-55CDDD.13105906112002 at nnrp02.earthlink.net>, Tom wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a function that I'm using, but I need to pass it some values that 
> could range between int and longint values. It looks something like this:
> 
> def myFunc (i, j):
>    do cool stuff...
> 
> 
> If I call the function as such: myFunc(2382373743L, 2382772391L), I get 
> the following error:
> 
> OverflowError: Long int too long to convert to int. 

You're trying to convert a long into an int using the int builtin.

> I can't seem to get myFunc to understand that i and j are long integers.  How
> would I go about doing this?

Don't try to convert it to an int ;-)

For more detailed advice, we need more detailed information. In particular, a
traceback and the relevant code section where the exception occured.
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