The smallest and largest values of numeric types

mensanator at aol.com mensanator at aol.com
Tue Apr 17 14:59:03 EDT 2007


On Apr 17, 11:37 am, t... at finland.com wrote:
> Thank you for your answers. Seems like the limits of numeric values
> aren't considered as important in Python as in C ;)

Sure, they're important, we just don't want to notice them. That's why
conversion to longs is automatic, so that number size limits don't
cause problems and your problems are solved rather than throw
exceptions or produce invalid results.




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