[Python-Dev] Decimal & amp; lt; -& amp; gt; float comparisons in py3k.

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Mar 21 02:17:09 CET 2010


Glenn Linderman wrote:
> Thanks, though for the nice chart from an internals guy, you confirmed
> all that I thought I knew about how this presently works, from PEP and
> manual reading, a bit of experimentation, and the discussions here.

I'll confess to a bit of interpreter prompt experimentation to confirm
the behaviour, especially in the relation to Fractions - I didn't know
all of that off the top of my head. The implicit coercion from Fraction
-> float definitely surprised me a bit.

Cheers,
Nick.

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