[Python-Dev] Unifying Long Integers and Integers: baseint

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     >> 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.)

Something like following?

object
     numeric
         integer
             int
             long
         float
         complex


PS I've already have implementation for baseinteger, but can't made a 
patch since cvs.python.sourceforge.net always told me 'Connection timed 
out'... :-/

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