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

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 11:06:47PM -0800, Mark H. Harris wrote:

> hi Steve, the reading I would like to find, and can't, is the 
> discussion that led to the change in behavior in Py2.7; where convert 
> from float stopped giving the (convert to string message).
> 
> I am very interested in reading that discussion.  Do you have a link to 
> that?

http://bugs.python.org/issue8257
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098699.html

and in particular:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098717.html


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Steven