Raymond Hettinger wrote:
There's a part of this thread that says basically, "fine, but stick it
somewhere else." To me, it doesn't make any sense at all to create a
parallel set of functions in the math module. To convert a number to
binary, it makes sense to use the bin() function. I don't understand
this notion that bin() is a sacred cow of intergerdom and would
philosophically corrupt if it handled floats also.
It isn't the extension to something other than integers that bothers me,
it's the extension to floats in a way that can't be easily supported for
other types such as decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction.
Well, that and the beta deadline (we have to draw the line somewhere, or
we'll be stuck in an eternal spiral of "just one more feature")
Cheers,
Nick.
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