On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:41:40AM -0600, Mark H. Harris wrote:
My idea for python is to two things really, 1) make floating point decimal the default floating point type in python4.x, and
I think it is premature to be talking about what goes into Python 4.x, which is why I refer to it as "Python 4000". There's no concrete plans for a Python 4 yet, or even whether there will be a Python 4, what the last Python 3.x version will be, or what sort of changes will be considered. But I would expect that any such Python 4 will probably be at least four years away, although given the extended life of 2.7 possibly more like eight. (Given the stress of the 2->3 migration, I think *nobody* is exactly in a hurry for yet another backwards incompatible version. Perhaps we should be delaying such things until Python 5000.)
2) make these functions ( pdeclib.py ) or equiv available in python4.x by default.
If it's worth having a decimal maths library, its probably worth having it in 3.5 or 3.6. -- Steven