Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: BTW, the StackOverflow question helped me understand the use-case here:
http://stackoverflow.com/q/11154954/270986 The perspective is that of a *Fraction* user who wants to be able to easily see the Decimal expansion of a Fraction to an arbitrary number of decimal places. (I was trying to understand why a *Decimal* user would care about converting from Fraction instances, but that's the wrong way around.) That desire to have an easy way to see the digits of a Fraction seems reasonable to me, but I'm not sure that having a Decimal method is the right way to go about it. Another possible solution would be to implement a decent __format__ method for Fraction, so that somebody could do: >>> format(Fraction(1, 7), '.17g') >>> '0.14285714285714286' ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15136> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
