fumanchu wrote: > On Apr 17, 7:12 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> How can I determine the smallest and largest values >> of numeric types (for example int) possible in my >> system? I think there exists a function for this task >> but I don't know it. > > This should work for ints: > > import sys > print sys.maxint
One should note that ints bigger than sys.maxint are possible almost seamlessly since Python will use longs for these numbers: Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Mar 13 2007, 08:13:14) [GCC 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.maxint 2147483647 >>> sys.maxint+1 2147483648L >>> sys.maxint*2 4294967294L >>> sys.maxint**10 2085924830053169311564321191305931199741711560688200050463950578047164169337729650765802242049L Of course performance decreases for longer longs. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
