On 14 Sep 2007 18:08:00 -0700, Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@nospam.invalid> wrote: > "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()
>>> print(next(a)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OverflowError: cannot count beyond PY_SSIZE_T_MAX Hum, you've got me there. it is the same as in 2.x. Maybe the message should be less crypt, at least - nothing that googling for PY_SSIZE_T_MAX cant help. -- http://www.advogato.org/person/eopadoan/ Bookmarks: http://del.icio.us/edcrypt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
