[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
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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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