On Jan 14, 2008 5:48 AM, Jim Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/12/08, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Jan 12, 2008 5:09 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > During the discussion about the new Rational implementation
> > > (http://bugs.python.org/issue1682)
On 1/12/08, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2008 5:09 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > During the discussion about the new Rational implementation
> > (http://bugs.python.org/issue1682), Guido and Raymond decided that
> > Decimal should not implement the n
[Aahz]
> I have always thought that "quantize()" makes Decimal
> confusing in the context of the other mechanisms that Python makes
> available for other kinds of numbers.
No doubt, the spec made a number of choices that are obvious only if you work
at IBM. And, there is no doubt, the module has
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [Jeffrey Yasskin]
>>
>> I am not building out the decimal API. I am adding enough methods to
>> maintain the comment that "Decimal floating point objects share many
>> properties with the other builtin numeric types such as float and int.
>> All of
2008/1/7, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Arghh! You seem hell-bent on jamming this in. Please leave the
> decimal module alone. It does *not* need both a round() method
> and a quantize() method.
Question.
I'm so used to quantize that I don't care. And I'm, in general, -0 to
adding
[Raymond]
>> There should probably be a PEP sets clearer guidelines about what should be
>> backported from Py3.0.
>>
>> Perhaps something like this:
>> * If there is a new feature that can be implemented in both and will make
>> both more attractive, then it should be in both.
>> * If something
On Jan 6, 2008 7:40 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Jeffrey Yasskin]
> > The other 3 methods
> > specified by PEP 3141 aren't strictly necessary for 2.6, but they will
> > be needed for 3.0. I'd rather not make the two versions of Decimal
> > gratuitously different, so this patc
