Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r68182 - in python/trunk: Lib/decimal.py Misc/NEWS

2009-01-06 Thread Mark Dickinson
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Jim Jewett wrote: > Our of curiousity, why are these constants for internal use only? I don't think anyone ever thought about deliberately making them public---I suspect they were introduced as a speed optimization. I can see that having things like NaN = Decimal(

Re: [Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r68182 - in python/trunk: Lib/decimal.py Misc/NEWS

2009-01-05 Thread Jim Jewett
Our of curiousity, why are these constants for internal use only? Is there concern that people might start using "is", or is it just to keep the (beyond the spec) API small, or ...? -jJ On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:07 PM, mark. dickinson wrote: > Author: mark.dickinson > Date: Sat Jan 3 00:07:08 2