On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> Thank you! As you may or may not have noticed in a different thread, we're > going through a small existential crisis regarding the usefulness of > is_integer() -- Serhiy believes it is not useful (and even an attractive > nuisance) and should be deprecated. OTOH the existence of > dec_mpd_isinteger() seems to validate to me that it actually exposes useful > functionality (and every Python feature can be abused, so that alone should > not be a strong argument for deprecation). > if not deprecated, then do we add it to all the other numeric types? Which was the original suggestion, yes? -CHB -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception chris.bar...@noaa.gov
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