Record pronouncement about trailing 'L' on hex/oct output.

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Tim Peters 2006-06-12 19:13:38 +00:00
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C. The trailing 'L' is dropped from repr(), and made illegal on
input. (If possible, the 'long' type completely disappears.)
The trailing 'L' is also dropped from hex() and oct().
Phase A will be implemented in Python 2.2.
@ -315,6 +316,13 @@ Resolved Issues
These issues, previously open, have been resolved.
- hex() and oct() applied to longs will continue to produce a
trailing 'L' until Python 3000. The original text above wasn't
clear about this, but since it didn't happen in Python 2.4 it
was thought better to leave it alone. BDFL pronouncement here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-June/065918.html
- What to do about sys.maxint? Leave it in, since it is still
relevant whenever the distinction between short and long ints is
still relevant (e.g. when inspecting the type of a value).