[Python-Dev] Common subset of python 2 and python 3 (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Jan 15 15:34:24 CET 2014


On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:31:17 +0200 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

15.01.14 14:22, "Martin v. Löwis" написав(ла): > I don't think that it is possible to write an interpreter that is fully > compatible for all it accepts. Would you think that the program > > print(repr(2**80).endswith("L")) > > is in the subset that should be supported by both Python 2 and Python 3? > > Notice that it prints "True" in Python 2 and "False" in Python 3.

This is implementation details. On 128-bit platform special build of Python 2 can print False.

If you explicitly create a long the L will always be printed:

long(0) 0L

Regards

Antoine.



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