Devin Jeanpierre added the comment: Oh, to be clear on this last point:
> Hum, who else needs such function except of you? Right now there is no way to convert an int that might be > 64 bits, into a python long, except really bizarre shenanigans, unless we want to rely on implementation-defined behavior. This would be fine if it were easy to implement, but it isn't -- as we've both agreed, there's no good way to do this, and it is significantly easier to add this to CPython than to implement this from outside of CPython. And I do think there is merit in writing code that doesn't rely on implementation-defined behavior. I also think it's simpler -- imagine if we just didn't care about all these int types! Phew. Ack that this isn't "strong rationale" per your standards, so do whatever is right for this bug. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17870> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com