sys.maxint gives the largest positive integer supported by Python's regular integer type. But maybe such attribute, with few others (they can be called min and max) can be given to int type itself. D is a very nice language, that I hope to see more used. It is copying lot of things from Python. D Floating point values have some proprieties:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/property.html Properties for Floating Point Types: .init initializer (NaN) .infinity infinity value .nan NaN value .dig number of decimal digits of precision .epsilon smallest increment .mant_dig number of bits in mantissa .max_10_exp maximum exponent as power of 10 .max_exp maximum exponent as power of 2 .min_10_exp minimum exponent as power of 10 .min_exp minimum exponent as power of 2 .max largest representable value that's not infinity .min smallest representable value that's not 0 .re real part .im imaginary part I think such attributes may be useful to be added to Python float type/values too. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
