Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: I have 3 comments for future readers who might want to reopen.
1) This would have little effect on calculation with numpy. 2) According to sys.getrefcount, when '>>>' appears, 3.0.1 has 1200 duplicate references to 0 and 1 alone, and about 2000 to all of them. So so small int caching really needs to be done by the interpreter. Are there *any* duplicate internal references to 0.0 that would help justify this proposal? 3) It is? (certainly was) standard in certain Fortran circles to NAME constants as Raymond suggested. One reason given was to ease conversion between single and double precision. In Python, named constants in functions would ease conversion between, for instance, float and decimal. ---------- nosy: +tjreedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4024> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
