[Python-Dev] Mixing float and Decimal -- thread reboot

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 21 06:00:47 CET 2010


Nick Coghlan wrote:

> int -> Decimal -> Fraction -> float -> complex

I don't think it's a good idea to put Decimal below Fraction,
because Decimal has to be considered an implicitly inexact
type like float, and we don't want to coerce from an inexact
type to an exact one.

-- 
Greg


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