On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:47:27 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > implementation in pure Python). Finally, arithmetic would become >> > very confusing if there were three distinct numeric types; it already >> > causes enough confusion with two! > > There's already ints, longs, floats, complexes, and decimals. What's > the problem with one more?
Having different data types for different needs isn't a bug, it's a feature. Besides, ints and longs are more or less the same data type now, or at least they are in the process of being integrated. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
