Mark Dickinson <dickinsm <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Right: numbits is only a natural property of a *binary* integer. > > On the other hand, I can't realistically see Python ever adopting a > non power-of-two based implementation.
No, but Python is duck-typed and alternate integer classes could adopt such an implementation while trying to respect the Python-level long API. cheers Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com