Hello, I am trying to write an extension type that inherits from Pythons int.
Based on the documentation, <https://docs.python.org/3/extending/newtypes_tutorial.html#subclassing-other-types> this should be possible, but I checked Pythons implementation and the struct defining a PyLongObject uses a flexible array to store the limbs to support arbitrary large numbers. So having a PyLongObject as first member of my own types struct doesn't work because parts of the ob_digit array would be overwritten by members defined in the subclass of the new type that inherits from PyLongObject.
Has anyone already done something like that? Is there some trick to work around that issue, or is it simply not possible to inherit from PyLongObject?
Thank you, Mathias -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
