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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Aug 13 01:30:16 CEST 2004

All this brings to mind - is there actually a good reason to need a base type? Why not just define baseinteger as:

baseinteger = int, long if the only reason for it is to use isinstance?

So that an extension author could write an int-like type deriving from it?

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

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