Splitting numeric litterals

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.749.1279159335.1673.python-list at python.org>, MRAB wrote:

> Normally it's only string literals that could be so long that you might
> want to split them over several lines. It is somewhat unusual to have a
> _numeric_ literal that's very very long!

Seems a peculiar assumption to make in a language that allows integers of 
arbitrary length, does it not?