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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Aug 10 14:55:53 CEST 2004 

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

Michael> Not that I'm aware of.

We've discussed the numeric type hierarchy in the past. I think it would be worth considering all the numeric types at once and come up with a reasonable hierarchy that includes float, complex and decimal types as well. (It's clear there is no "best" way to do that.)

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