On 12.01.2017 10:04, George Fischhof wrote: > Hi There, > > Settable defaulting to decimal instead of float > > It would be good to be able to use decimal automatically instead of float > if there is a setting. For example an environment variable or a flag file. > > Where and when accuracy is more important than speed, the user could set > this flag, and calculate with decimal numbers as learned in the school. > > I think several people would use this function
I don't think having this configurable is a good idea. Too much code would break as a result and become unusable for people wanting to use such functionality, so it would be of limited value. The above is similar to what we had in Python 2 for enabling Unicode literals everywhere (the -U option). It was added as experiment at the time. No one used it due to the massive breakage it caused in the stdlib. Why not explicitly code for your use case ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Jan 12 2017) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Database Interfaces ... http://products.egenix.com/ >>> Plone/Zope Database Interfaces ... http://zope.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ http://www.malemburg.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
