[Python-Dev] Octal literals (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Feb 2 23:46:00 CET 2006


Bengt Richter wrote:

[1] To reduce all this eye-glazing discussion to a simple example, how do people now use hex notation to define an integer bit-mask constant with bits ^^^^^^^

31 and 2 set? | | That's easy: | 0x80000004 | >>> 0x80000004 | 2147483652L | ^------------------------' That didn't meet specs ;-)

It sure does: 2147483652L is an integer (a long one); it isn't an int.

Regards, Martin



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