L suffix in long integer in Python 3.x

Question

In Python 2.x there was a L suffix after long integer. As Python 3 treats all integers as long integer this has been removed. From What\'s New In Python 3.0:

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Answer 1

You misunderstood the documentation.

The remark is aimed at people trying to strip the L from repr() in Python 2. Those people could use str() instead and get the same number without having to strip the L each time.

In other words, str(), when used on a long integer in Python 2, is the better method to convert the number to a string, as it will never add the L suffix that repr() would add:

Python 2.7.6 (default, Apr 28 2014, 17:17:35) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.1 (clang-503.0.40)] on darwin
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>>> print repr(1L)
1L
>>> print str(1L)
1

Python 3 will never add the L. Not when using repr(), and not when using str(). There would be no point; all integers in Python 3 are long integers.