Does Python need a '>>>' operator?

[Greg Ewing]

Bengt Richter wrote:
> 
> On thinking about it, I think this is ugly, though probably
> convenient in the implementation. I.e., looking at the bits
> of the absolute value is not usually what you really want when
> you convert to hex, IMO.

The way I see it, if you're doing bit twiddling
using unified ints/longs, you should always be
working with *positive* integers, in which case
the hex representation will always be what
you want.

The only reason negative integers come into
the picture now is that setting bit 31 of a
non-long int has the side effect of making it
negative. Once ints and longs are unified,
this presumably will no longer happen.

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