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Travis E. Oliphant oliphant.travis at ieee.org
Tue Aug 15 00:28:45 CEST 2006

Travis E. Oliphant wrote:

The idea is that the index() method should return an exact int or exact long or this call will raise an error. The restriction is present to remove the possibility of infinite recursion (though I'm not sure where that would occur exactly).

I just realized that returning a sub-class of Int and/or Long would not be a problem here. The recursion problem that I was guarding against only arose when the possibility of returning any object with an .index() method was suggested.

Therefore, I think these exact int or exact long checks can and should be replaced with PyInt_Check() and PyLong_Check().

-Travis

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