On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Sturla Molden <stu...@molden.no> wrote: > > Why does this happen? > > >>> type(2**31-1) > <type 'long'>
Does that not happen on non-Windows platforms? 2**31 can't be represented as a 32-bit signed integer, so it's automatically promoted to a long. -- Curt Hagenlocher c...@hagenlocher.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
