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| author | Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de> | 2002-11-19 20:49:15 (GMT) |
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| committer | Walter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de> | 2002-11-19 20:49:15 (GMT) |
| commit | f171540ab8d816a996c34db3f6aa4bf9cf147fba (patch) | |
| tree | 001d1ff0bdea449058218d2debf6d6f8dbbcb220 /Misc/NEWS | |
| parent | 7a3bae410df3dd0032509b97077d0c4d98276fdd (diff) | |
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Change int() so that passing a string, unicode, float or long argument
that is outside the integer range no longer raises OverflowError, but
returns a long object instead.
This fixes SF bug http://www.python.org/sf/635115
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@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 alpha 1? Type/class unification and new-style classes -------------------------------------------- +- int() now returns a long object if the argument is outside the + integer range, so int("4"*1000), int(1e200) and int(1L<<1000) will + all return long objects instead of raising an OverflowError. - Assignment to __class__ is disallowed if either the old or the new class is a statically allocated type object (such as defined by an |