Prothon vs. Python integers

[Mark Hahn]

Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
> Mark Hahn <mark at prothon.org> wrote:
>> No economy is ever going to to have a gdp of 10**19 pennies.
>
> Turkey's is around 10**18 lira (obtained from 2002 GDP in $ and
> current exchange rate). You could argue that by the time they
> hit 10**19 they'll have got EU membership and gone over to the
> Euro....
>
> (Japan's GDP appears to be around 10**16Y, BTW.)
>
> Given the number of times we see newbies confused by Python's
> handling of floating points, it strikes me that silent conversion
> of overflowing ints to doubles is asking for trouble somewhere
> down the line, and should be avoided if possible.

I've agreed to adding longs.  I'm thinking of only having longs.