[Python-Dev] Unifying Long Integers and Integers: baseint (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Mon Aug 9 13:05:04 CEST 2004

Dmitry Vasiliev <lists at hlabs.spb.ru> writes:

Is there a plan for implementing a base class for int and long (like basestring for str and unicode):

>>> issubclass(int, baseint) and issubclass(long, baseint) True

Not that I'm aware of. Personally, I think it's slightly more likely that we'll have:

int is long True

but this is a long way off, and could cause upset with people who need to do bit bashing or interface with C.

Of course,

baseint = (int, long)

makes what you type accurate today :-)

Cheers, mwh

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