[Python-Dev] Should hex() yield 'L' suffix for long numbers? (original) (raw)
Ka-Ping Yee python-dev at zesty.ca
Mon Jun 12 02:26:15 CEST 2006
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I did this earlier:
>>> hex(9999999999999)
'0x9184e729fffL'and found it a little jarring, because i feel there's been a general trend toward getting rid of the 'L' suffix in Python.
Literal long integers don't need an L anymore; they're automatically made into longs if the number is too big. And while the repr() of a long retains the L on the end, the str() of a long does not, and i rather like that.
So i kind of expected that hex() would not include the L either. I see its main job as just giving me the hex digits (in fact, for Python 3000 i'd prefer even to drop the '0x' as well), and the L seems superfluous and distracting.
What do you think? Is Python 2.5 a reasonable time to drop this L?
-- ?!ng
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