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From Nathan Boley
Subject Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?
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In response to Re: Why don't we accept exponential format for integers?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.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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