Confusion about numbers

[Erik Max Francis]

Tim Roberts wrote:

> I thought the special status of "long" numbers had gone by the
> wayside, so
> that all integers were the same, but clearly I was mistaken:

The plan is to make the transition between ints, longs, and floats (and
perhaps rationals, should they come along) more natural; that doesn't
mean they're all the same thing:

Python 2.2.2 (#2, Oct 14 2002, 17:32:20) 
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> type(1)
<type 'int'>
>>> type(1L)
<type 'long'>
>>> type(1.0)
<type 'float'>

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