On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 2:55 AM Martin Teichmann <martin.teichm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > I would be willing to write such a PEP. It will take a while though, I am not > fast at those kinda things.
Cool cool. Feel free to email me off-list about getting started; here's some handy info to read: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0012/ > > Currently, fractions.py imports decimal.py, mainly (purely?) for the > > sake of being able to construct a Fraction from a Decimal. The decimal > > module is *large* and has other reasons for not becoming builtin too, > > so ideally, the two should be decoupled. > > I started the decoupling as bpo-44115, aka GH-26064 > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/26064 > I would be happy about your comments there. Not seeing anything there about decoupling the two modules? > I actually have a new idea about how a fraction literal could look like: just > write 2/3 as opposed to 2 / 3, and you get a fraction. So: no spaces: > fraction, with spaces: float. > > I hear you crying "but that's illegal, whitespace should not matter!", to > which I respond: > > >>> 3.real > File "<stdin>", line 1 > 3.real > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > >>> 3 . real > 3 > > Cheers > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > 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/3XWRLCHB4UQT25Z7RKU2DE2NE7ALC26D/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ _______________________________________________ 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/K3XSI3A4YZQKKANZVEDDGLODQLSQGWUM/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
