On 26 mar, 20:03, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:50 AM, jmfauth <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 25 mar, 22:51, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The Python 3 merge of int and long has effectively penalized > >> small-number arithmetic by removing an optimization. As we've seen > >> from PEP 393 strings (jmf aside), there can be huge benefits from > >> having a single type with multiple representations internally ... > > > ------ > > > A character is not an integer (short form). > > So? > > ChrisA
A character is not an integer. jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
