On Jan 5, 2008 7:11 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think pep 3141's round(x, ndigits) does (1). The only thing it > > doesn't support yet is specifying the rounding mode. Perhaps the pep > > should say that round() passes any extra named arguments on to the > > __round__() method so that users can specify a rounding mode for types > > that support it? > > That would clutter the interface. Just specify a universal rounding mode for > __round__ and have Decimal's implementation of that > method comply.
Yeah, thinking about this more, a .round() method on Context objects seems like a better way to handle the part of Mark's request that the round builtin doesn't cover. Of course, there may be even better alternatives that I haven't thought of. I'll post a patch to http://bugs.python.org/issue1623 tomorrow so we have something concrete to talk about. -- Namasté, Jeffrey Yasskin _______________________________________________ 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
