On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the one hand there's something to be said for maintaining a clean > separation between the float and Decimal types, allowing only explicit > conversions from one to the other; mixed-type arithmetic between > floats and Decimals was very deliberately not permitted in the > original PEP, and that's unlikely to change in a hurry. On the other But, to be fair, we didn't have "true value of the float at that time". I'm +0 to allow these comparisons, being "Decimal(1) < .3" the same as "Decimal(1) < Decimal.from_float(.3)" -- . Facundo Blog: http://www.taniquetil.com.ar/plog/ PyAr: http://www.python.org/ar/ _______________________________________________ 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
