Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Neil Schemenauer wrote:
>> IMO, Decimal should
>> be returning NotImplemented instead of raising TypeError.
>
> I agree, but I'm also interested in the fact that nobody commented on
> this before Python 2.4 went out. I read the reference page on numeric
> coercion more times than I care to count, and still didn't register
> that there might be an issue with raising the TypeError - and that's
> only me. Relative to people like Raymond and Facundo, I spent
> comparatively little time working on Decimal :)
>
> I think the problem arose because the natural thing to do in Python
> code is to push the type inspection for operations into a common
> method, and have that method raise TypeError if the other argument
> isn't acceptable.
>
> Trying to convert that exception to a 'NotImplemented' return value is
> a pain (it's less of a pain in C, since you're already checking for
> error returns instead of using exceptions).
It seems to me that the most straightforward thing would be for
_convert_other to return NotImplemented, or to split it into two
functions, one that returns NotImplemented and one that raises and use
the former in __methods__. This would mean a certain amount of
other = _convert_other_ni(other)
if other is NotImplemented: return other
but this seems mild in comparisons to the contortions the module
already performs in the name of correctness.
Cheers,
mwh
PS: this beahviour seems odd already:
>>> decimal.getcontext().abs(1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/Users/mwh/Source/python/dist/src/Lib/decimal.py", line 2321, in abs
return a.__abs__(context=self)
TypeError: wrapper __abs__ doesn't take keyword arguments
couldn't/shouldn't the context methods do a _convert_other (of the
erroring out kind) of their arguments?
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