printing longs

[John Machin]

On Apr 7, 7:54 am, "garyp" <gary.por... at authentec.com> wrote:
> Python 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 26 2004, 16:42:40)
> [GCC 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)] on linux2
>
> >>> x = int("80000000", 16)
> >>> x = x | 0x80000000
>
> <stdin>:1: FutureWarning: hex/oct constants > sys.maxint will return
> positive values in Python 2.4 and up

As your subject says, you are working with longs, so don't mix in an
int (0x8000000, which is negative in Python 2.3 and earlier) -- use
0x8000000L instead.

>
> >>> print "%x" % ( x )
> -80000000

"%x" % x
is enough.

>
> How do I get python to print the usual answer: 8000000, not -80000000

"usual" in what context?

Cheers,
John