int vs long

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <f40fki$p9p$00$1 at news.t-online.com>, Peter Otten wrote:

> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> 
>>>>> from itertools import count
>>>>> from sys import maxint
>>>>> c = count(maxint)
>>>>> c.next()
>> 2147483647
>>>>> c.next()
>> -2147483648
>> 
>> What I find most disturbing here, is that it happens silently.  I would
>> have expected an exception instead of the surprise.
> 
> This is fixed in Python2.5:
> 
>>>> from itertools import count
>>>> import sys
>>>> c = count(sys.maxint)
>>>> c.next(), c.next()
> (2147483647, 2147483648L)

Hm, my test above was from 2.5!?

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch