Can Python do shopping cart?

Paul Rubin http
Fri Mar 6 08:19:28 EST 2009


Tim Wintle <tim.wintle at teamrubber.com> writes:
> Surely you can address an infinite amount of storage using infinite
> length integers and a wrapper to files on disk - then it's just your
> OS's limits that hold it back - so python is turing/register complete.

Python doesn't have infinite length integers.  It has long integers,
but their size is bounded by the size of the pointers inside Python,
normally 32 or 64 bits.



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