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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Aug 9 17:47:10 CEST 2004


Is there a plan for implementing a base class for int and long (like basestring for str and unicode):

>>> issubclass(int, baseint) and issubclass(long, baseint) True ?

I think this would be a good idea; maybe the name should be baseinteger?

I think it's been suggested before, and can't remember why it wasn't implemented -- perhaps the use cases aren't as compelling as for basestring?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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