[Python-Dev] Decimal <-> float comparisons in py3k.

[Facundo Batista]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the one hand there's something to be said for maintaining a clean
> separation between the float and Decimal types, allowing only explicit
> conversions from one to the other;  mixed-type arithmetic between
> floats and Decimals was very deliberately not permitted in the
> original PEP, and that's unlikely to change in a hurry.  On the other

But, to be fair, we didn't have "true value of the float at that time".

I'm +0 to allow these comparisons, being "Decimal(1) < .3" the same as
"Decimal(1) < Decimal.from_float(.3)"

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