Performance of int/long in Python 3

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano > No string methods?
You were lucky. When I were a lad, you couldn't even
> use "" delimiters for strings.
>
>>>> "b string"
> Parsing error: file <stdin>, line 1:
> "b string"
>  ^
> Unhandled exception: run-time error: syntax error
>
>
> Python 0.9.1.

Well of course that's an error. Anyone can see it should have been:
>>> "a string"

*duck*

ChrisA