On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> wrote: > Sorry to bring this up, but the PEP should probably consider another option: > Introducing a precedent following os.stat_decimal_times(). Like > os.stat_float_times, it would decide the return types of timestamps from > os.stat. Or something along that line. Having it affect the results of > time.time would be weird, though. And the whole design of > os.stat_float_times smells of something being designed wrong in the first > place, to need such an API to retain backward compatibility. But I'm not > sure it is, even yet, designed for such flexibility.
We could get away with a global switch for the int->float transition because ints and floats interoperate pretty well. The same is not true for binary floats and decimal.Decimal. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
