[Python-checkins] peps: PEP 410

victor.stinner python-checkins at python.org
Tue Feb 21 02:23:13 CET 2012


http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/20cfaac9c10e
changeset:   4066:20cfaac9c10e
user:        Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>
date:        Tue Feb 21 00:02:51 2012 +0100
summary:
  PEP 410

files:
  pep-0410.txt |  10 +++++-----
  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0410.txt b/pep-0410.txt
--- a/pep-0410.txt
+++ b/pep-0410.txt
@@ -97,9 +97,9 @@
 Backwards Compatibility
 =======================
 
-The default timestamp type is unchanged, so there is no impact on backward
-compatibility nor on performances. The new timestamp type, decimal.Decimal, is
-only returned when requested explicitly.
+The default timestamp type (float) is unchanged, so there is no impact on
+backward compatibility nor on performances. The new timestamp type,
+decimal.Decimal, is only returned when requested explicitly.
 
 
 Objection: clocks accuracy
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@
 To support timestamps with an arbitrary or nanosecond resolution, the following
 types have been considered:
 
+ * decimal.Decimal
  * number of nanoseconds
  * 128-bits float
- * decimal.Decimal
  * datetime.datetime
  * datetime.timedelta
  * tuple of integers
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
 fixed. The precision can be choose as the loss of precision is smaller than
 an arbitrary limit like one nanosecond.
 
-Different formats has been proposed:
+Different formats have been proposed:
 
  * A: (numerator, denominator)
 

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