Beginner: Data type conversion question
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Jan 16 20:34:49 EST 2009
flagg wrote:
>> If rdate.serial is already a string, as name would imply, the str() call
>> is pointless. If not, can you get inc as int more directly?
...
> Actually when i run a type(serial) on that variable it returns a
> "long"
Then inc = serial % 100 is 'more directly'.
> which i am not sure why dnspython uses a long variable to
> store the serial.
Perhaps a holdever from C code where long is necessary to dependably
hold counts with 8 decimal digits.
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