[Python-Dev] Int FutureWarnings and other 2.4 TODOs (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Dec 5 06:11:00 EST 2003

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

If you agree with this premise, then it suggests a different approach. Use different implementations in C, but have type(x) in Python lie. type(x) would always return the type object which is now known as "long". If this can be made to work, I like it.

I think Armin is ill at the moment, but you're all singing his tune :-) (He has some very similar sounding ideas for PyPy).

Cheers, mwh

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