James Y Knight wrote: > And it does in C because C doesn't have arbitrary size integers, so if > round returned integers, round(1e+308) couldn't work.
Also, in C you can use the result directly in an int context without complaint. In Python these days, that is usually disallowed. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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