On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:55:03 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: > 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]
No string methods? You were lucky. When I were a lad, you couldn't even use "" delimiters for strings. >>> "b string" Parsing error: file <stdin>, line 1: "b string" ^ Unhandled exception: run-time error: syntax error Python 0.9.1. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
