Re: implicit conversion

2005-01-31 Thread Benjamin Schmeling
Alex Martelli wrote: Benjamin Schmeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... I don't know how to achieve implicit conversion at this point, turning an long automatically into an bigint. The other way round, turning an bigint into long can be realized by defining __long__. Perhap

implicit conversion

2005-01-31 Thread Benjamin Schmeling
Hi, I am working on exposing a bigint class to python. Now I've got the problem that methods which take an bigint as an parameter do not accept Python longs. For example: import _PythonLiDIA x=123L; c=_PythonLiDIA.bigint(); _PythonLiDIA.gcd(c,x); Traceback (most recent call last): File "test.py"