On Nov 8, 2007 6:05 PM, Gregory P. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought the hell of stripping trailing Ls off of stringed numbers was gone > but it appears that the hex() and oct() builtins still leave the trailing > 'L' on longs: > > Python 2.6a0 (trunk:58846M, Nov 4 2007, 15:44:12) > [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> x = 0xffffffffc10025be > >>> x > 18446744072652596670L > >>> str(x) > '18446744072652596670' > >>> hex(x) > '0xffffffffc10025beL' > >>> '0x%x' % (x) > '0xffffffffc10025be' > >>> oct(x) > '01777777777770100022676L' > > This appears to be fixed in py3k (as there is no longer an int/long to > distinguish). Can we at least get rid of the annoying L in 2.6?
It will break code, so probably not. Consider this motivation to move over to Python 3.0. =) -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com