[Python-Dev] Mini-Pep: Simplifying the Integral ABC (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 20:36:03 CEST 2008

2008/6/6 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

Does anyone actually need an int lookalike with binary methods but cannot just inherit from int? Does anyone actually need an int lookalike with operations like +, - etc. but cannot just inherit from int? If the answer is yes, is there a compelling reason why they wouldn't want to support binary methods as well?

I have no vested interest either way, but I think someone mentioned creating a long int equivalent based on Decimal earlier in the thread. Wrappers for the gmp library might also want to do this. It's hardly the world's biggest use case, though...

Paul.

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