Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?

From: Nathan Boley <npboley(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?
Date: 2010-12-17 20:31:21
Message-ID: AANLkTi=Z6o+oim0q0OrbX6m4erhynTh_FH0qVnsKBK7r@mail.gmail.com
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>>>> print int(1e+01)
> 10
>>>>
>

That isn't building an integer: it is creating a float and casting to an int.

try:

int( 1e100 )

Best,
Nathan

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