[Python-Dev] Return type of round, floor, and ceil in 2.6

[Jeffrey Yasskin]

On Jan 4, 2008 4:40 AM, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/1/4, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail.com>:
>
> > I haven't seen any answers to the original question. It looks like
> > Decimal is decided by 2.5 too: return a float from everything.
> > Rational, being a completely new type, is up to you guys, but because
> > new support for the conversion routines seems to be rare, it's
> > probably best to have it return floats too.
>
> Sorry, I didn't understand this parragraph.
>
> Do you mean that the response in the following case is of type "float"?:
>
> >>> round(decimal.Decimal("2.5"))
> 3.0

Yes.

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Namasté,
Jeffrey Yasskin