Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> type(-2**31) is long for 2.5 and 2.6 as well as 2.7. The check was
> added as a response to #6314, to catch incorrect values being passed
> as levels.

Well, what is an incorrect value and why would you bother refusing long?
And how about small long values (e.g. long(0))?

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