Re: [Python-Dev] Adventures with Decimal

2005-05-21 Thread Greg Ewing
Raymond Hettinger wrote: From the mists of Argentina, a Palidan set things right. The literal 1.1 became representable and throughout the land the monster was believed to have been slain. I don't understand. Isn't the monster going to pop right back up again as soon as anyone does any

Re: [Python-Dev] Adventures with Decimal

2005-05-21 Thread Paul Moore
On 5/21/05, Raymond Hettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A root difference is that I believe we have both a compliant implementation (using Context.create_decimal) and a practical context free extension in the form of the regular Decimal constructor. Please forgive an intrusion by someone who

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 344: Explicit vs. Implicit Chaining

2005-05-21 Thread James Y Knight
On May 20, 2005, at 6:37 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: This only helps if you can get to a debugger. What if you're reading your web server's error log? Then you're in trouble anyways because you need the contents of some local to figure out what's going on, also. James

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 344: Explicit vs. Implicit Chaining

2005-05-21 Thread Ka-Ping Yee
On Sat, 21 May 2005, James Y Knight wrote: On May 20, 2005, at 6:37 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote: This only helps if you can get to a debugger. What if you're reading your web server's error log? Then you're in trouble anyways because you need the contents of some local to figure out what's