On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Also, speaking as somebody who remembers a time when ints where not > automatically promoted to longs (introduced in, Python 2.2, I think?) let > me say that having a single unified int type is *fantastic*, and managing > ints/longs by hand is a right royal PITA.
Oh, I absolutely agree! I'm just looking at performance here, but definitely the int/long unification is a Good Thing. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list