[Python-ideas] Grammar for plus and minus unary ops
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 09:19:40 CET 2009
Bruce Leban wrote:
> And if you're worried about eval('+' + somecode), you've got three
> choices: (1) leave out the '+' because it has no effect
That's not true for all data types - Decimal is the one that comes to
mind as having a significant use for unary '+' (specifically, it is used
to say "round to currently defined precision, but otherwise leave the
value alone")
Cheers,
Nick.
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