On 20/05/2013 12:47am, Pierre Rouleau wrote:
Moreover, the development version is 3.4, and in Python 3 the int
type is a variable-length integer type (sys.maxint doesn't exist
anymore). So this discussion is largely moot now.
Good to know. Too bad there still are libraries not supporting Python
3. Thanks.
Even in Python 2, if the result of arithmetic on ints which would
overflow, the result automatically gets promoted to a long integer which
is variable-length.
>>> 2**128
340282366920938463463374607431768211456L
>>> type(2), type(2**128)
(<type 'int'>, <type 'long'>)
So the size of an int is pretty much irrelevant.
--
Richard
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