Stefan Krah added the comment: > While we're on the subject, though, trying to convert a very large int to > float fails with an OverflowError. Perhaps Decimal should do the same?
I've always viewed float() as a cast. For casting Decimal's behavior seems to be the right one to me. If we go ahead with implicit casts for isclose(), I still think the PEP's non-float section should be changed: It sounds as if native support was planned for Decimal. Does someone have the tracker id of Chris? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24270> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
