Integer Overflow

[Ursus Horibilis]

"Hans Nowak" <wurmy at earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:3C03D04B.D89F97A2 at earthlink.net...
> Ursus Horibilis wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to force the Python run time system to
ignore
> > integer overflows?  I was trying to write a 32-bit Linear
> > Congruential Pseudo Random Number Generator
>
> Say what?
>
> > and got clobbered
> > the first time an integer product or sum went over the
32-bit
> > limit.
>
> Use longs:
>

Okay.  My next project was to do the same thing with 64-bit
numbers.  So how do I disable trapping for integer overflow?

(And don't tell me to use very longs ;-)