[issue29223] Settable defaulting to decimal instead of float

STINNER Victor added the comment: Jim is right, I close the bug. The *bug* tracker is not the best place to propose ideas: please use the python-ideas mailing list ;-) -- resolution: -> not a bug status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue29223] Settable defaulting to decimal instead of float

STINNER Victor added the comment: > This issue (and your other issue29223) ... I guess that you mean issue #29224 "OS related file operations (copy, move, delete, rename...) should be placed into one module". -- ___ Python tracker

[issue29223] Settable defaulting to decimal instead of float

STINNER Victor added the comment: You are not the first one to propose the idea. 2012: "make decimal the default non-integer instead of float?" https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2012-September/016250.html 2014: "Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System" https://mail.python.or

[issue29223] Settable defaulting to decimal instead of float

Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard added the comment: This issue (and your other issue29223) would probably be a better for the python-ideas mailing list rather than the bug tracker. See the FAQ in the Developer Guide for Python https://docs.python.org/devguide/faq.html#suggesting-changes Both issues sho

[issue29223] Settable defaulting to decimal instead of float

New submission from George Fischhof: 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 sp