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
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]
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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"
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>>I note that
