I wanted to have something like a binary floating point number like 0.11011.  Ideally, it would be as simple as Decimal('0.11011', radix=2).

Best,

Neil

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 5:02 PM Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:49 AM, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Arbitrary radix comes up every now and then and Decimal already has a
> radix() method.  It would be nice when initializing a Decimal object to be
> able to specify an arbitrary radix>=2.
>

The radix method always returns 10, because decimal.Decimal always
operates in base 10. Are you looking for a way to change the way
arithmetic is done, or are you looking for a way to construct a
Decimal from a string of digits and an arbitrary base (the way
int("...", x) does)?

ChrisA
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