Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Neil Hodgson]

rusi:

> Can you please try one more experiment Neil?
> Knock off all non-ASCII strings (paths) from your dataset and try
> again.

    Results are the same 0.40 (well, 0.001 less but I don't think the 
timer is that accurate) for Python 3.2 and 0.78 for Python 3.3.

    Neil