[Tutor] more newbie questions

[Lloyd Kvam]

Thanks.  An interesting read.

I think Python2.2 helps greatly on the overflow front. int * int will
now return a long when necessary.  Converting a float to a non-float
still seems to require a test (that I omitted) to choose between long
and int.

Kirby Urner wrote:

> 
>>
>> def combo(n, r=None):
>>         if r is None: r = int(n/2)
>>         assert 0 <= r <= n, "r must be between 0 and n"
>>         return int(fact(n,r)/fact(r))
> 
> 
> Check this post by Tim Peters (archives, edu-sig) for
> an optimized version of combo:
> 
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/580860
> 
> Kirby
> 
> 


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