[Python-Dev] Type of range object members (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Aug 16 08:23:53 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing schrieb:

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

We had this discussion before; if you use obsize==0 to indicate that it's an int, this space isn't needed in a long int. What about int subclasses?

It's what Guido proposes.

It would still leave two types (perhaps three) at the C level, so C code might have to continue making conditional code depending on which of these it is. Also, Python code that dispatches by type still needs to make the distinction.

Regards, Martin

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