Python long integer input

Question

How can one take a "long int" input in Python 2.7?

PS I tried various variations of n=(*(raw_input())) but to no avail.

Answer 1

n = int(raw_input())

This will convert the input to an integer. Since Python employs arbitrary precision arithmetic, we don't have to worry about how big the number is.

>>> n = int(raw_input())
100000000000000
>>> n
100000000000000L