On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Mike Pelletier wrote:
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jordan B. Baker wrote:
The other thing is that I doubt it handles double long integers since AFAIK Python doesn't handle these without an extension module.
It sure does:
Python 1.5.2b1 (#2, Jan 18 1999, 11:01:20) [GCC 2.7.2.1] on freebsd3 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
long("99999999999999999") 99999999999999999L 9999999999999L ** 2 99999999999980000000000001L
Spiffy, eh? I'm pretty sure it's arbritrary-precision, which means you can make numbers as large as you have memory for. Or is this not what you mean?
Hey, I'm glad you proved me wrong :) It looks like there is a limitation in the MySQLmodule when handling MySQL's LONGLONG datatypes that could probably be corrected. I may take a look at this later, but I am thinking I may just store UNIX timestamps in my database since this is more portable across databases anyways. But anyway, this may be a FAQ item as I'm sure other people may run into it. -jbb. ------- Jordan B. Baker -- jbb@spyderlab.com weaving the web @ http://www.spyderlab.com