Bengt,
Thanks for your informative reply, further comments interleaved.
"Bengt Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 02:37:21 +1000, "Jeff Melvaine"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>I note that
Raymond,
Thanks for your answers, which even covered the question that I didn't ask
but should have.
"A Python list is not an array()\n" * 100 :)
Jeff
"Raymond Hettinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [Jeff Melvaine]
>
I note that I can write expressions like "1 << 100" and the result is stored
as a long integer, which means it is stored as an integer of arbitrary
length. I may need to use a large number of these, and am interested to
know whether the storage efficiency of long integers is in danger of
break
