March 16, 2010
2:58 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> wrote:
On the one hand there's something to be said for maintaining a clean separation between the float and Decimal types, allowing only explicit conversions from one to the other; mixed-type arithmetic between floats and Decimals was very deliberately not permitted in the original PEP, and that's unlikely to change in a hurry. On the other
But, to be fair, we didn't have "true value of the float at that time". I'm +0 to allow these comparisons, being "Decimal(1) < .3" the same as "Decimal(1) < Decimal.from_float(.3)" -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/