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

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:

> > if the only reason for it is to use isinstance?
> 
> So that an extension author *could* write an int-like type deriving
> from it?

But didn't you just say that people shouldn't be
deriving their own int-like types from baseinteger?

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