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[Python-Dev] Octal literals

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Fri Feb 3 01:08:18 CET 2006 
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:46:00 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

>Bengt Richter wrote:
>>>>[1] To reduce all this eye-glazing discussion to a simple example,  
>>>>how do people now
>>>>use hex notation to define an integer bit-mask constant with bits
>> 
>>                                  ^^^^^^^  
>> 
>>>>31 and 2 set?                    |
>>>
>>>                                  |
>>>That's easy:                       |
>>>0x80000004                         |
>> 
>>  >>> 0x80000004                     |
>>  2147483652L                        |  
>>            ^------------------------'
>> 
>> That didn't meet specs ;-)
>
>It sure does: 2147483652L is an integer (a long one); it isn't an
>int.
Aw, shux, dang. I didn't say what I meant ;-/
Apologies to James & all 'round. s/integer/int/ in the above.

Regards,
Bengt Richter
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