"David Abrahams" <david.abrahams at rcn.com> wrote in message news:adofuv$6v$1 at bob.news.rcn.net... > Is there some straightforward way to find out the range of a Python Int (in > code)? > The best I could do was to probe it using tricks like: > > x = 1 > while (x << 1) > 0: > x <<= 1 > Do you mean sys.maxint ? -- Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com ---------