Nuno Hespanhol wrote: > Hi. > I have started learning phyton today! > I was playing around with some large numbers (fibonacci series) > and noticed that in some large calculations results have an "L" at the > end of a number. > Does this L stands for Large? Is there any way to disable this feature, > so that all numbers are shown? > > Thanks for your time.
"L" means it is "long integer". In the python interpreter, when you do something like this: >>> a it will actually call the __repr__ of a and print it. >>> print a.__repr__() while >>> print a will call __str__ of a and print it >>> print a.__str__() Python 2.x's long integer __repr__ adds an extra L to denote long integer, however the __str__ does not. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
