[Python-ideas] Python3.3 Decimal Library Released

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:41:40AM -0600, Mark H. Harris wrote:

> My idea for python is to two things really, 1) make floating point decimal
> the default floating point type in python4.x, and 

I think it is premature to be talking about what goes into Python 4.x, 
which is why I refer to it as "Python 4000". There's no concrete plans 
for a Python 4 yet, or even whether there will be a Python 4, what the 
last Python 3.x version will be, or what sort of changes will be 
considered. But I would expect that any such Python 4 will probably be 
at least four years away, although given the extended life of 2.7 
possibly more like eight.

(Given the stress of the 2->3 migration, I think *nobody* is exactly in 
a hurry for yet another backwards incompatible version. Perhaps we 
should be delaying such things until Python 5000.)


> 2) make
> these functions ( pdeclib.py ) or equiv available in python4.x by
> default.

If it's worth having a decimal maths library, its probably worth having 
it in 3.5 or 3.6.



-- 
Steven