google app engine generates long ids

Question

I am working locally with windows 8 and latest version of GAE using python. after performing for one of my models model.put(), the generated id for this model in the datastore is 6088866696204910592L (i see it directly in the datastore and with model.key().id()).

from https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/keyclass#Key_id:

"id() Returns the numeric ID of the data entity, as an integer, or None if the entity does not have a numeric ID."

does anyone have a clue why the generated id is sometimes not an integer?

Answer 1

Look at the documentation: if you want to use Key.from_path you may pass "a string or a long" as the id_or_name argument. Maybe it just means "integer" as the opposite of decimal/float. As @Tim said, ints and longs are interchangeable in Python.