wishlist Python3K: subclass ints

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <393FD0C7.D70479A2 at visionart.com>,
Pete Shinners  <pete at visionart.com> wrote:
>
> - Also gone are all the nit-picking type checking routines.
>   instead of first checking if a variable is a "class" type,
>   then checking if the object is a certain class, all variables
>   hold objects of the same "rank". the best move would be to
>   have "int" and "float" be subclassed from a base class like
>   "realnumber".

Close, but no cigar.  Start with the base class "number".  Then
everything else follows: int, float, rational, complex.
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