informal representation of long integers

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"Randall Kern" <randy at spoke.net> wrote in message
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> Using Python 1.5.2:
>
> >>> str(10L)
> '10L'
> >>> repr(10L)
> '10L'
>
> Just curious why the 'informal' representation of 10L is '10L', rather
than
> '10'.
> -Randy
>
>