On 02 Jun 2007 20:18:02 -0700, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Dan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Note that recent versions of Python automatically promote the results > > of integer arithmetic to long if necessary, so the distinction is less > > relevant than it used to be. > > Note however that even in recent versions, there are still parts of > Python that get stuck at sys.maxint, for example the enumerate function. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
I didn't know that - I'll keep it in mind though. I can imagine that causing some pretty nasty annoyances if you ran into it unexpectedly -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
