On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyass...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, Decimal isn't doing anything along these lines. At least in
> Python 2.6, I get:
>
>>>> Decimal('2').max(Decimal('2.0'))
> Decimal('2')
>>>> Decimal('2.0').max(Decimal('2'))
> Decimal('2')
>>>> Decimal('2.0').min(Decimal('2'))
> Decimal('2.0')
>>>> Decimal('2').min(Decimal('2.0'))
> Decimal('2.0')
>
> indicating that '2' is considered larger than '2.0' in the min/max
> comparison.Right; there's a strict specification about how equal values with different exponents (or different signs in the case of comparing zeros) should be treated. > It's ignoring the order of the arguments. It also creates > a new Decimal object for the return value, so I can't use id() to > check which one of identical elements it returns. This bit surprises me. I honestly thought I'd fixed it up so that max(x, y) actually returned one of x and y (and min(x, y) returned the other). Oh well. Mark _______________________________________________ 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
