[issue11144] int(float) may return a long for no reason

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

I'd call this a bug, albeit a minor one.  The documentation for 'int' says: 

"If the argument is outside the integer range a long object will be returned instead."

... which certainly suggests (without actually formally implying) that an int object should be returned if the argument is within the integer range.

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