Name/ID of removable Media: how?

Tue Apr 19 11:45:48 EDT 2005

Hi All--

Tim Golden wrote:
> 
> Try this: hex (-793919769)
> 
> You might need to check back on recent discussions here re
> negative / positive numbers and hexadecimal.
> 
> (Short version: we used to treat hex numbers with the top bit
> set as negative decimal numbers; now only negative hex numbers
> are negative decimals)
> 

Of course I tried that.  Did you?

Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> hex (-793919769)
'-0x2f524119'
>>>

Metta,
Ivan
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