int vs long

[kaens]

On 02 Jun 2007 20:18:02 -0700, Paul Rubin
<"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Dan Bishop <danb_83 at yahoo.com> writes:
> > Note that recent versions of Python automatically promote the results
> > of integer arithmetic to long if necessary, so the distinction is less
> > relevant than it used to be.
>
> Note however that even in recent versions, there are still parts of
> Python that get stuck at sys.maxint, for example the enumerate function.
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I didn't know that - I'll keep it in mind though. I can imagine that
causing some pretty nasty annoyances if you ran into it unexpectedly