question about output

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:24:31 -0700, Java and Swing wrote:

> i have printed out some numbers and they look like
> 
> 10944800e
> 10952560d

They don't look like numbers to me. They have letters at the end. What are
they? What does the letter mean?


> ...if i want to later assign this type of number to variable how can i
> do it?
> 
> for example i can't do...
> 
>>> x = 10944800e
> 
> ..since it says "invalid token" on the "e".

How did you get the "numbers"? If you just typed them in by hand, then
leave the "e" off and you have a number.

If they are supposed to be hex numbers, then you can use:

x = int("10944800e", 16)  # note the quote marks
print x

-> 4450451470

If you don't care about the numeric value, then you just put quote marks
around the number+letter:

x = "10944800e"

but then x will be a string, not a number. 

If none of these answers is what you need, you will need to explain your
problem a little better.


-- 
Steven.