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

[Oscar Benjamin]

On 8 March 2014 20:12, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's probably time someone [1] wrote up a PEP about all this. The most
> important points, as I see it, are:
>
> 1) Create a new Decimal literal notation - 1.234d seems to be the most
> popular syntax. This is reasonably uncontroversial, but it has
> consequences.

I feel like I've boxed myself into the corner by arguing that
*someone* should do this. :)

Unless someone else especially wants the mantle I'll try to write a
PEP about decimal literals (I won't have any real time until Monday
though).


Oscar