Hi Tim, On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:14:29PM -0500, Tim Peters wrote: > For some reason `decimal` implemented __mod__ as the proposed > standard's "remainder" operation. That's the immediate source of your > surprise. IMO `decimal` should not have implemented __mod__ at all, > as Python's number-theoretic mod is not part of the proposed standard, > is a poor basis for a floating-point mod regardess, and it was a > mistake to implement decimal % decimal in a way so visibly different > from float % float and integer % integer: it confuses the meaning of > "%". That's your complaint, right?
Thanks for the clarification. Yes, it makes sense that __mod__, __divmod__ and __floordiv__ on float and decimal would eventually follow the same path as for complex (where they make even less sense and already raise a DeprecationWarning). A bientot, Armin. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
