On Jan 6, 2008 1:21 AM, Jeffrey Yasskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
The new patch is posted: http://bugs.python.org/file9080/decimal-3141.patch I'll implement Context.round() in a separate patch. Comment away. :) -- 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
