[New-bugs-announce] [issue7389] Make decimal floating point be default, remove binary floating point

[Retro]

New submission from Retro <vinetouu at gmail.com>:

The Python interpreter should have the decimal type built into its core.
The mechanism for dealing with decimal numbers should be handled by the
decimal type and not by the processor which spits binary floats. The
time is now. But ask yourself these questions:

Is this doable? If yes:
Would it break anything? If yes, note that:
Python 3.1 opposed to Python 3.0 also had major changes that break the
two appart.

I say go for revolutional change in Python 3.2. But the call is yours.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 95668
nosy: Retro, gvanrossum
severity: normal
status: open
title: Make decimal floating point be default, remove binary floating point
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.2

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