"Eduardo O. Padoan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not totally unrelated, but in Py3k, as it seems, overflows are really > things of the past: > > > Python 3.0a1 (py3k:58061, Sep 9 2007, 13:18:37) > [GCC 4.1.3 20070831 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu1)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> class MyInt(int): > ... pass > ... > >>> import sys > >>> MyInt(sys.maxint) > 2147483647 > >>> MyInt(sys.maxint+1) > 2147483648
I'd be interested in knowing what happens in 3.0a1 with a = itertools.count(sys.maxint) print a.next() print a.next() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
