[Python-ideas] Settable defaulting to decimal instead of float

[Paul Moore]

On 12 January 2017 at 10:28, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> George requested this feature on the bug tracker:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue29223
>
> George was asked to start a discusson on this list. I posted the
> following comment before closing the issue:
>
> You are not the first one to propose the idea.

OK, but without additional detail (for example, how would the proposed
flag work, if the main module imports module A, then would float
literals in A be decimal or binary? Both could be what the user wants)
it's hard to comment. And as you say, most of this has been discussed
before, so I'd like to see references back to the previous discussions
in any proposal, with explanations of how the new proposal addresses
the objections raised previously.

Paul