On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Sturla Molden <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
