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Added the conversion of very large longs as an open issue.
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gvanrossum committed Jul 27, 2001
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multiple interpreters installed.


Specification
API Changes

During the transitional phase, we have to support *three* division
operators within the same program: classic division (for / in
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need the same. These usually have enough control over the
library packages available in their environment.

- For very large long integers, the definition of true division as
returning a float causes problems, since the range of Python
longs is much larger than that of Python floats. This problem
will disappear if and when rational numbers are supported. In
the interim, maybe the long-to-float conversion could be made to
raise OverflowError if the long is out of range.


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