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

[Guido van Rossum]

> All this brings to mind - is there actually a good reason to need a base
> type? Why not just define baseinteger as:
> 
>     baseinteger = int, long
> 
> if the only reason for it is to use isinstance?

So that an extension author *could* write an int-like type deriving
from it?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)