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

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

guido at python.org wrote:

>> 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?

Fair 'nuff.

Tim Delaney