Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.albasani.net!newsfeed.freenet.ag!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.83.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.018 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'integers': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'so?': 0.09; 'character.': 0.16; 'integer.': 0.16; 'integers,': 0.16; 'mean,': 0.16; 'newsgroups': 0.16; 'number?': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'wed,': 0.18; 'seems': 0.21; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'him.': 0.24; 'integer': 0.24; 'url:moin': 0.24; 'fairly': 0.24; 'subject:/': 0.26; 'gets': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'character': 0.29; 'hiring': 0.29; 'room': 0.29; 'characters': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'url:wiki': 0.31; '>>>>': 0.31; 'worked': 0.33; 'url:python': 0.33; "i'd": 0.34; 'agree': 0.35; 'no,': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'really': 0.36; "he's": 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'read': 0.60; 'voice': 0.60; 'most': 0.60; 'eye': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'refer': 0.63; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'determine': 0.67; 'mar': 0.68; 'useful.': 0.68; 'around,': 0.84; 'idiot.': 0.84; 'idiots': 0.84; 'idiots.': 0.84; 'not...': 0.84; 'subject:long': 0.84; 'edwards': 0.91; '2013': 0.98 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Performance of int/long in Python 3 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:26:30 +0000 References: <0b779c80-4f50-4716-8c30-47755c15f304@m12g2000yqp.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-18-20-125.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130325-2, 25/03/2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 42 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1364333002 news.xs4all.nl 6957 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47627 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:41954 On 26/03/2013 21:14, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2013-03-26, Mark Lawrence wrote: >>> On 26/03/2013 20:44, jmfauth wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> A character is not an integer (short form). >>>>> >>>>> So? >>>> >>>> A character is not an integer. >>>> >>>> jmf >>> >>> But you are an idiot. >> >> I think we all agree that jmf is a character. >> >> So we've established that no characters are integers, but some >> characters are idiots. >> >> Does that allow us to determine wheter integers are idiots or not? > > No, it doesn't. I'm fairly confident that most of them are not... > however, I have my eye on 42. He gets around, a bit, but never seems > to do anything very useful. I'd think twice before hiring him. > > But 1, now, he's a good fellow. Even when things get divisive, he's > the voice of unity. > > ChrisA > Which reminds me, why do people on newsgroups often refer to 101, my favourite number? I mean, do we really care about the number of a room that Eric Blair worked in when he was at the BBC? -- If you're using GoogleCrap™ please read this http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython. Mark Lawrence