On Sunday, March 9, 2014 12:21:07 AM UTC-6, Alexander Heger wrote:

The decimal module really should only be used for financial
applications; there should be a separate high-precision float type.

No, no, no.... It may and should be used for financial calculations,

so true,

but it may ALSO be used for a general purpose high precision (and)

arbitrary precision decimal floating point. Otherwise it might as well have

been patterned after the fixed width standard. It was patterned after

Cowlishaw's extension.

Why do you say only financial?