[Python-Dev] [2.3a2+] Change in int() behavior (original) (raw)

David Abrahams dave@boost-consulting.com
Fri, 07 Mar 2003 21:04:42 -0500

The following change in behavior is causing one of my tests to fail. Is it intentional? Should isinstance(int(x),int) really ever return False?

$ python Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 3 2003, 14:10:37) [GCC 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import sys int(sys.maxint * 2) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ? OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int exit 'Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit.'

dave@penguin ~ $ /usr/local/pydebug/bin/python Python 2.3a2+ (#1, Feb 24 2003, 15:02:10) [GCC 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

import sys [17514 refs] int(sys.maxint * 2) 4294967294L [17613 refs]

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