[Python-Dev] int/long FutureWarning (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Fri, 29 Nov 2002 06:07:28 -0500

On Fri, Nov 29, 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

2. x = 0x80000000 gives a signed integer in Python <=2.2 and long(x) results in -2147483648L; int(0x80000000L) gives an OverflowError in Python <=2.2

You sure about this? I thought the whole point was that it's not necessarily -2147483648L and OverflowError -- on a 64-bit platform.

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