From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> To: python-announce-list@python.org Subject: Revised PEP 237 - Unifying Long Integers and Integers Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:43:34 -0400 Please comment on the completely revised PEP 237: http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0237.html I'm proposing an implementation plan that keeps int and long as separate types, but otherwise will totally remove the differences. I'm also proposing a transition plan that does one easy thing in 2.2 (change ops that raise OverflowError to return a long result instead), and puts off addressing the more severe incompatibilities to 2.3. This is mostly because I don't see how we can make time to design and implement the necessary future statements or other compatibility measures in time. Please mail comments to me or to python-dev@python.org. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list