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

2008-09-23 Thread John Toliver
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. Does this treating of the number only mean that Python won't try to represent the number

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

2008-09-23 Thread Adam Bark
2008/9/23 John Toliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Does this treating of the number only mean

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

2008-09-23 Thread Steve Willoughby
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 04:24:48PM +0100, Adam Bark wrote: 2008/9/23 John Toliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

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

2008-09-23 Thread Kent Johnson
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:16 AM, John Toliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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