Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 06:11:50 -0700, rusi wrote:

> On Apr 1, 5:15 pm, Roy Smith <r... at panix.com> wrote:

>> The import job isn't done yet, but so far we've processed 116 million
>> records and had to clean up four of them.  I can live with that.
>> Sometimes practicality trumps correctness.
> 
> That works out to 0.000003%. Of course I assume it is US only data.
> Still its good to know how skew the distribution is.

If the data included Japanese names, or used Emoji, it would be much 
closer to 100% than 0.000003%.



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Steven