KraftDiner wrote: > What is the range of a variable of type int() > > eg: > i = int() > print i.max() # 0xFFFFFFFF > print i.min() # 0x00000000 > > is it a signed 16 bit or 32 bit or is it unsigned 16 or 32... > I've noticed that it can be incremented into a new class of type > long...
|>> import sys |>> sys.maxint 2147483647 >From the sys module docs: maxint The largest positive integer supported by Python's regular integer type. This is at least 2**31-1. The largest negative integer is -maxint-1 -- the asymmetry results from the use of 2's complement binary arithmetic. Peace, ~Simon P.S. ints and longs are becoming unified soon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list