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

[Michael Hudson]

Dmitry Vasiliev <lists at hlabs.spb.ru> writes:

> 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'... :-/

I think you want cvs.sourceforge.net these days.

Cheers,
mwh

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