Python Integers: nitty-gritty details

Name: Python Integers: nitty-gritty details
Start: 2021-09-03T08:30:00+00:00
End: 2021-09-03T09:00:00+00:00
Location: Best Western Hotel

Talk 30 min September 03, 2021 at 08:30

Petras Zdanavičius

A deep technical dive into CPython's an integer type implementation: - What is an integer in C? Why new fancy languages have `u8`, `i8`, ..., `u64`, `i64` and Python only has `int`. - What is an integer in Python? - What is a long integer in Python? - Why integers are no longer supported in Python starting January 1, 2020? (Trololo)