[Tutor] What does L at last stands for when 10 ** 30

[Joel Goldstick]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Santosh Kumar <sntshkmr60 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am doing:
>>>> power = 10 ** 30
>>>> power
>
> and the output:
>>>> 10000...L          # what does L represent
>
> interesting thing is L doesn't shows when I do a: print power
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Long integer.  You can learn more here:
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#numeric-types-int-float-long-complex


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Joel Goldstick