[Tutor] A question about how python handles numbers larger than it's 32 bit limit

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Tue Sep 23 18:13:01 CEST 2008


On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:16 AM, John Toliver <john.toliver at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> The book I have says when you anticipate that you will be working with
> numbers larger than what python can handle, you place an "L" after the
> number to signal python to treat it as a large number.

Your book is a little old, the "L" has not been required since Python 2.4.

Kent


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