iterating bit-by-bit across int?

[Tim Roberts]

Brian Kelley <bkelley at wi.mit.edu> wrote:

>Paul Rubin wrote:
>> 
>> Long ints can have as many bits as you want.
>
>Such as -1L which has an infinite number of bits.

Oh come on, that's just silly.  If that were true, I could not type this at
a Python prompt because it would cause an overflow:

   i = -1L

-1L, in fact, has exactly the same number of bits as 1L and, probably,
1048576L.
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