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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 07 Oct 2002 16:32:42 -0400

I've reread pep237 (is this the relevant one?) again.

Yes.

Do I understand this correctly, that all the following expressions will be 'true' and will compile/execute without any warnings (on a 32bit box):

Python 2.2: 0x80000000 == -2147483648

Yes.

Python 2.3: 0x80000000L == 2147483648

Also in 2.2. Before that, 0x80000000L had the same value, but 2147483648 raised OverflowError.

Python 2.x (Phase B1?): 0x80000000L == 2147483648

Python 2.y (Phase B2 and later): 0x80000000 == 2147483648

Yes.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)