What is the meaning of this number? 3735928559

By Vasudev Ram

Saw this tweet by Raymond Hettinger (@raymondh), Python core developer:

Pop quiz: Whenever you see the number 3735928559 in your output, there is probably an error in the code. What is special about this number?

So I took a guess: converted the number to hexadecimal:

>>> print hex(3735928559)

and sure enough, it printed out:

0xdeadbeefL

Here is the reverse conversion, from hexadecimal to decimal:

>>> print int('0xDEADBEEF', 16)
3735928559

Also see: hexspeak

How do you like that little critter at the top of the post?
I call him PyBug. Drawn impromptu, for this post, by:

- Yours truly,

- Vasudev Ram - Online Python training and programming

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