Ryan Gonzalez added the comment: > > "errors should not pass silently" > > The "fix" makes the problem worse. > > Why would anyone want to pass a long integer to exit? > > I bet the user who discovered this problem had something like 0L or 1L > coming from a lazily written C extension.
Or the person is using a Python code generator that makes everything a long for portability reasons! Hy does this. int and long are supposed to be indistinguishable. Quote by Guido from the time when I figured out the re module's group function doesn't take longs: ...but any place where an int is accepted but a long is not, is a bug. The language has been on a long trip to making the two types interchangeable and this seems one of the last remnants. Notice the word *interchangeable*. Also, I find that the current behavior is even more confusing. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14376> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
