[Python-ideas] Boolean ABC similar to what's provided in the 'numbers' module

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Feb 21 00:35:29 EST 2018


On 2/20/2018 12:06 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number it seems that Integer is 
> "special" -- every other number type is listed as "<adjective> numbers" 
> (e.g. rational numbers, complex numbers) but integers are listed as 
> "Integers". So let's just switch it to that, and keep Integral as an 
> alias for backwards compatibility. I don't think it's a huge problem to 
> fix this in 3.7b2, if someone wants to do the work.

https://bugs.python.org/issue32891

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Terry Jan Reedy



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