iterating bit-by-bit across int?

[Brian Kelley]

Tim Roberts wrote:

> Brian Kelley <bkelley at wi.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Paul Rubin wrote:
>>
>>>Long ints can have as many bits as you want.
>>
>>Such as -1L which has an infinite number of bits.
> 
> 
> Oh come on, that's just silly.  If that were true, I could not type this at
> a Python prompt because it would cause an overflow:
> 
>    i = -1L
> 

try

i = -1L
while i:
   i = i >> 1

and then repeat the statement :)  My only point is that you have to be 
careful with long ints.