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

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Aug 13 03:57:45 CEST 2004

Guido:

> if the only reason for it is to use isinstance?

So that an extension author could write an int-like type deriving from it?

But didn't you just say that people shouldn't be deriving their own int-like types from baseinteger?

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