FWIW, bigfloat (GNU MPFR) has arbitrary precision and rounding that can be set with `with` context managers: https://pythonhosted.org/bigfloat/
On Thursday, November 14, 2019, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > On 15/11/19 7:39 am, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> But in your >> source code, if you type 4.1, you are asking for the floating-point >> value > > The idea of providing decimal literals comes up from time to > time, but so far it hasn't gotten anywhere. The problem is that > it would make the core interpreter dependent on the Decimal > module. > > -- > Greg > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/4PYR7MP47ZFQXMPIN5AWTDHMQO5W2UK6/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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