On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:50 AM, jmfauth <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25 mar, 22:51, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The Python 3 merge of int and long has effectively penalized >> small-number arithmetic by removing an optimization. As we've seen >> from PEP 393 strings (jmf aside), there can be huge benefits from >> having a single type with multiple representations internally ... > > ------ > > A character is not an integer (short form).
So? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
