In article <5150e900$0$29998$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Also, speaking as somebody who remembers a time when ints where not > automatically promoted to longs (introduced in, Python 2.2, I think?) let > me say that having a single unified int type is *fantastic*, And incredibly useful when solving Project Euler problems :-) [I remember when strings didn't have methods] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list