Gmpy

[Gary Herron]

On Thursday 07 August 2003 07:30 am, Jean-Pierre Andreaux wrote:
> Gmpy module was a wrapper of the GNU MP library. It seems that no
> evolution is done on this module since 2001. Indeed, Gmpy is not
> supported in Python 2.2 nor 2.3.
>
> My question is the following: what is the better replacement solution
> for manipulating long numbers. I want to do long numbers
> exponentiations. Thanks in advance for your answers.
>
> JP

Python has (arbitrarily) long integer support built right in.  For instance:

>>> ((2**10)**10)**10
10715086071862673209484250490600018105614048117055336074437503883703510511249361224931983788156958581275946729175531468251871452856923140435984577574698574803934567774824230985421074605062371141877954182153046474983581941267398767559165543946077062914571196477686542167660429831652624386837205668069376L

Notice the 'L' on the end of the result implies the value is a "long'
integer, not a 32-bit integer.  

In recent versions of Python, arithmetic on normal integers will
convert to long integers when an overflow occurs.

Is this what you wanted?

Gary Herron