Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.37.1364970149.3114.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Neil Hodgson <nhodgson at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > rusi wrote:
> >    "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs
> > which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
> 
> In my personal experience, it's calculators. I put command-line
> calculators into *everything*... often in the form of more general
> executors, and thus restricted to admins, but it's still a calculator.
> 
> For some reason, the ability to type "calc 1+2" and get back 3 is very
> satisfying to me. You know, in case I ever forget what one plus two
> makes.

I discovered recently that Spotlight (the OSX built-in search engine) 
can do this.