On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote:
> 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? > Yes. That's a pronouncement, so we can end this thread (and more importantly the other). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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