[Python-ideas] Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Oscar Benjamin
<oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 3F could create a Fraction with the integer value 3 so that a/b gives
> a rational number:
>
>>>> from fractions import Fraction as F
>>>> a = 2
>>>> b = F(3)
>>>> a/b
> Fraction(2, 3)
>
> I don't understand why you say that can't be done.

(Also Steven who said the same thing.)

Uhh... brown-paper-bag moment. When I wrote up that post, I somehow
blanked out the obvious fact that Fraction can happily represent an
integer. Whoops...

As Julia Jellicoe said, my objection falls to the ground. Very well!

ChrisA