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

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

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

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