[Python-Dev] Unclear on the way forward with unsigned integers (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
07 Oct 2002 17:02:46 +0200

Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:

The result of that is also currently platform-dependent, so you need to say what you mean in a platform-independent way. It's likely that you meant

hex(-1 & 0xffffffffL) or, more directly, hex(0xffffffffL) but that someone on a 64-bit box meant something other than that.

Alternatively, if he really means what hex(-1) will mean in the future, he should really write hex(-1L), or, if -1 is a variable, hex(long(-1)).

Regards, Martin