It might have to do with Python 3 removing the classic int type and moving all int operations to longs. If you compare Python2's Objects/intobject.c's i_divmod() function to Python3's ...

The C-API has built up over 30 years, in a haphazard way. So, it is no surprise that it is a bit of a mess. What makes it worse is that it is based around the C long type, which is varies in size ...

Mypy can check more than simple Python types. In my last article, I introduced Mypy, a package that enforces type checking in Python programs. Python itself is, and always will remain, a dynamically ...

Converting data types is a common task in programming. In Python, we often need to convert integers to strings – for example, to display a number in a certain format or concatenate it with other ...

I have a string of 1s and 0s that represents a binary number (e.g. '00101101'). How would I convert that to an actual num? If I use int(), Python assumes decimal and creates a number that's much, much ...

In programming—and computer science in general—an expression is something which can be evaluated—that is, a syntactically valid combination of constants, variables, functions, and operators which ...