Overflow error when printing long values

[Michael Teo]

Thanks for your help.
However, I noticed that Python 2.1 does not give a trailing 'L' for str(l).
Is there any solution which will work well for Python 1.5.2 and Python 2.1 ?

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 23:51:25 +0800, Paul Rubin <phr-n2001 at nightsong.com> wrote:
>michaelteo at bigfoot.com (Michael Teo) writes:
>> I get an "OverflowError: long int too long to convert" when I tried to 
>> print "%d" % l
>> where l is a long Python value.
>> 
>> I have tried using str(l) but that gives a trailing 'L'.
>> 
>> Any good suggestion on how to solve this problem will be greatly
>> appreciated. Thanks.
>
>print str(l)[:-1]


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