dananrg> Are you saying I'm getting the "L" as an artifact of printing?
No, you're getting the "L" because you're printing a long integer. If you
execute
x = 872L
y = 872
at a Python prompt, x will be a long integer and y will be an integer. Long
integers can represent arbitrarily large numbers (subject only to memory
limitations). Integers are signed objects that are generally the same size
as the C long int type. They are currently two more-or-less distinct types.
As time goes on they are converging though. By the time Python 3.0 is
released I suspect there will be no difference.
If passing a long integer to some other routine is a problem (because it can
only accept regular integers) you can always convert it explicitly:
z = int(x)
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