print longs

[Hrvoje Niksic]

"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:

> 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.

A solution that might work in Python1 without breaking the world could
be to make "%ld" behave as one would expect.  For instance, "%ld" %
10000000000000000000L would evaluate to the printed representation of
the big number, but without the L.

This should not break existing programs because currently the same
expression raises an exception.