[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib xmlrpclib.py,1.11,1.12 (original) (raw)

Paul Prescod paul@ActiveState.com
Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:33:18 -0700

Jeremy Hylton wrote:

... It sounds like such a function would not be particularly useful for XML-RPC, but I can imagine it would be useful in a world where programmers don't worry about whether they have an int or a long.

In such a case I would use "long()" and not worry about a slight performance hit.

Paul Prescod