Oren Milman added the comment: After giving it some more thought (while working on another, somewhat related issue - http://bugs.python.org/issue27145), I realized that that assert in long_add could further verify that the int x_add returned is a multiple-digit int (as x_add had received two multiple-digit ints to begin with).
The important thing about this updated assert is that it verifies that x_add didn't return a reference to an element in small_ints (as small ints must be single-digit ints), so negating it in-place is safe. I have updated the assert and added an appropriate comment. The updated diff file is attached. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file43044/issue27073.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27073> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
