Facundo writes:
Proven that there were big probabilities of this method to bring confussion, based on experiencie of Java with a Decimal implementation and its relationship with the binary float data type, other Decimal core developers and I took the decision to extract it from the module in its first conception for Python 2.4.
While I don't object to removing from_float() for now, I want to encourage us to consider adding it back later -- I think it does have some uses. In the meantime, people can just convert to strings and back... which is easy to explain and to implement, although it probably suffers from minor rounding problems (I haven't really thought it through). -- Michael Chermside This email may contain confidential or privileged information. If you believe you have received the message in error, please notify the sender and delete the message without copying or disclosing it.