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

Dmitry Vasiliev lists at hlabs.spb.ru
Wed Aug 11 13:31:58 CEST 2004

Anthony Baxter wrote:

Dmitry Vasiliev wrote:

Quote from PEP-237: """ A new type, integer, may be introduced that is an abstract base type of which both the int and long implementation types are subclassed. This is useful so that programs can check integer-ness with a single test: if isinstance(i, integer): ... """ So maybe correct question then: is there a plan for implementing the integer type in Python 2.4? Well, we're a couple of weeks from what will hopefully be the last alpha. I'd hope anything like this would be in before then (although we can have things that change behaviour up until b1, I'd prefer that a3->b1 is just fixing bugs that require changes, or minor changes, not major changes). OTOH, I'm not sure how deep a change like this would be. In any case, if it's a change that you (or anyone else) feels strongly about, a patch on SF would be a first step towards making this happen.

So here it is:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1007068&group_id=5470&atid=305470

-- Dmitry Vasiliev (dima at hlabs.spb.ru) http://hlabs.spb.ru

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