Long integers: to L or not to L?

[Rudy Schockaert]

> > Also, why does this raise an error? (numbers in front of lines
> > indicate levels of indentation)
> >
> >  def h():
> > 1     i = 0
> > 1     def h1():
> > 3         i = i + 1
> > 3         print 1, i
> > 3        if i == 5:
> > 4             return i
> > 3         else:
> > 4             i = h1()
> > 4             return i
> > 1    i = h1()
> > 1    print 2, i
> >
> > Posting code is annoying...

If you save the 'obfuscated' Python code in a file and run it with a
filename as first parameter, there is no error anymore.
It still is however not yet clear to me what this thing does.

Rudy