[Python-Dev] Mini-Pep: Simplifying the Integral ABC

[Guido van Rossum]

Both of these seem 2.6-specific quirks. Those lines wereJeffrey's;
maybe he remembers? I'm guessing that adding __long__ was done since
2.6 supports it, and the removal of __int__ was an oversight.  I also
think that there's no reason to change __index__ to call long(); int()
will automatically return a long as needed. Maybe changing __long__
back to __int__ is also harmless.

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org>
>>
>> Make that int() instead of long() and I'm okay with it.
>
> Does anyone know why Integral says that __long__ is a required abstract
> method, but not __int__?
>
> Likewise, why is index() defined as long(self) instead of int(self)?
>
> There may be some design nuance that I'm not seeing.
>
>
> Raymond
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