implicit conversion

[Benjamin Schmeling]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> Benjamin Schmeling <Benjamin_Schmeling at gmx.de> wrote:
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>> I don't know how to achieve implicit conversion at this point, 
>> turning an
>> long automatically into an bigint. The other way round, turning an 
>> bigint
>> into long can be realized by defining __long__.
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> Perhaps adding to your bigint class a constructor (not declared as
> ``explicit'', if you're coding C++) which accepts as its argument a
> python long might help...?
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> Alex
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I have got such an constructor now (my_type(long_)), but nevertheless 
implicit conversion from long to my_type isn't supported. Any other ideas?

Benjamin