print longs

[Nathan Clegg]

On 05-Oct-99 Tim Peters wrote:
> It can't ever be changed in Python1.  Too much existing e.g.
>     str(long)[:-1]
> and
>     hex(long)[2:-1]
> code would silently break.

But making %ld work the way it "should" wouldn't break anything.  It would
treat ints as %d and longs as str(long)[:-1].  Anyone who chopped the
string explicitly wouldn't be affected.  Surely this would be a simple fix
and make everyone happy.


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