[Python-Dev] Re: PEP239 (Rational Numbers) Reference Implementation and new issues

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 03 Oct 2002 15:27:51 +1200 (NZST)


Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>:

> For that, I propose maxdenom=None to let the rationals
> grow without bound.

A global setting for this would have all the same problems
we've just gone over in relation to the "fuzz" setting.

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