Changing intobject to use int rather than long

[Terry Reedy]

"Christian Heimes" <lists at cheimes.de> wrote in message 
news:fkainq$61f$1 at ger.gmane.org...
| Terry Reedy wrote:
| > Good idea.  I think people who moved to 64 bits to get 64 bits would be
| > upset if they did not ;-).
|
| Windows X64 users still get 32bit ints. The long datatype is 32bit even
| on the 64bit version of Windows.

Yes, anyone expecting to get 64 bit ints from Windows would be upset.  And 
those who are getting 64 bit ints from real 64 bit OSes would be upset if 
the OPs suggestion were implemented.