I don't care too much either way, but I think passing underscores to the constructor shouldn't be affected by the context -- the underscores are just removed before parsing the number. But if it's too complicated to implement I'm fine with punting.
--Guido (mobile) On Mar 19, 2016 6:24 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 March 2016 at 16:44, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: > > On the other hand, assuming decimal literals are introduced at some > > point, they would almost definitely need to support underscores. > > Of course, the decision whether to modify the Decimal constructor > > can be postponed until that time. > > The idea of Decimal literals is complicated significantly by their > current context dependent behaviour (especially when it comes to > rounding), so I'd suggest leaving them alone in the context of this > PEP. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >
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