Longs

[Tim Peters]

[Ivan Van Laningham]
> When were longs added to Python?

Before the Beginning, I think.  They were already in the first version I
saw, long before Python 1.0.  At first they followed a 1's-complement model,
and changing to 2's-comp (to match bounded ints) is the only significant
change I recall.

> Whose idea was it?

guido-created-the-integers-all-the-rest-is-the-folly-of-man-ly y'rs  - tim