On Fri, Jul 01, 2005, Facundo Batista wrote: > On 7/1/05, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> My suspicion is that someone at some point thought that Cowlishaw was >> sufficient; we probably should write some base-level docs that explain >> the Python mechanisms and refer to Cowlishaw for details. > > Well, it's already well explained, with examples and all, in the PEP 327: > > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0327.html#rounding-algorithms > > I'll point to there from the Money PEP, but I think this should be > somewhere in the docs. I mean, as a final user, you shouldn't read a > PEP or a 3rd party doc to know how to use a module.
Agreed. Unfortunately, that's one big area where Python needs work; new-style classes are probably the worst. If you wanted to take the lead and push a sprint on doc work, you'd be a hero. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx prgrmmng. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
