Integer, 64 Bit, signed and unsigned

[beliavsky at aol.com]

Arithmetic with 8-byte integers will be much faster when using Fortran
and C++ compilers that directly support it, compared to Python, which
resorts to infinite precision arithmetic when 4-byte integers cannot
be used. Search for "speed integer*8" in this newsgroup -- there was a
discussion in late Feb early March 2004.

Torsten Mohr <tmohr at s.netic.de> wrote in message news:<c49t6n$4mh$1 at schleim.qwe.de>...
> Hi,
> 
> i'd like to use 64 Bit Integer values in Python,
> can anybody give me a hint on what are the limits
> in Python?
> 
> Can i use signed and unsigned 64 Bit Integers?
> 
> 
> Thanks for hints,
> Torsten.