From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:14:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention FutureWarning for large ints
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~2006
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=80fd7851ac4e808c879203f4d6a461a0bab563c9;p=python

Mention FutureWarning for large ints
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
index a119a8fced..3da9309e87 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex
@@ -2073,6 +2073,11 @@ objects are converted to their Python equivalent, if one exists, or
 wrapped with a \class{_tkinter.Tcl_Obj} object if no Python equivalent
 exists.
 
+\item Large octal and hex literals such as
+0xffffffff now trigger a \exception{FutureWarning} because currently
+they're stored as 32-bit numbers and result in a negative value, but
+in Python 2.4 they'll become positive long integers.  
+
 \item You can no longer disable assertions by assigning to \code{__debug__}.
 
 \item The Distutils \function{setup()} function has gained various new