On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote: > > Why does this happen? > > >>> type(2**31-1) > <type 'long'> Does that not happen on non-Windows platforms? 2**31 can't be represented as a 32-bit signed integer, so it's automatically promoted to a long. -- Curt Hagenlocher curt at hagenlocher.org