Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
Here's a patch that implements __ceil__, __floor__ and __round__. (It
seems that just removing __ceil__, __floor__ and __round__ is not an
option, as I just discovered when r62669 turned all the buildbots red.)
Points to note:
(1) Two-argument round has essentially the same semantics as quantize.
To be precise, for a Decimal instance x and an int n,
round(x, n)
is exactly interchangeable with
x.quantize(Decimal('1E%s' % -n))
In particular, this means that round uses the rounding mode from the
current context (which will usually, but not always, be
ROUND_HALF_EVEN), and that an InvalidOperation exception will be raised
(or NaN returned) if the rounded value has too many digits for the
current context precision.
After thinking about it, it seemed better to make the two expressions
above identical than to have subtle and potentially confusing
differences between them.
(2) Decimal.__round__ takes two optional arguments, 'context' and
'rounding', again with exactly the same semantics as the corresponding
optional arguments for quantize. At the moment, these arguments aren't
considered public, and aren't documented. (And they're only accessible
through __round__ anyway, not directly through the round() builtin.)
(3) For one-argument round, ceil, and floor, the only real decision to
be made is what to do with NaNs and infinities. The spirit of IEEE
754/854/754r suggests that an attempt to turn an infinity into an
integer should signal the 'overflow' floating-point exception, while
turning a NaN into an integer should signal 'invalid'; correspondingly,
the patch raises OverflowError or ValueError respectively in these
situations.
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keywords: +patch
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10186/decimal_ceilfloor.patch
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