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

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) tdelaney at avaya.com
Fri Aug 13 01:33:41 CEST 2004


guido at python.org wrote:

All this brings to mind - is there actually a good reason to need a base type? Why not just define baseinteger as:

baseinteger = int, long if the only reason for it is to use isinstance? So that an extension author could write an int-like type deriving from it?

Fair 'nuff.

Tim Delaney



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