Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
> Do you think it would be worth replacing the two uses of > conditional expressions in Decimal.from_float with if-else > statements? Yes, please. > Of course, from_float still won't work with earlier versions > of Python, but having one Decimal method unavailable seems > like a lesser crime than making 'import decimal' fail. Right. I don't see an easy way around that short of having a conditional compilation, allowing use of alternative slow code multiplying the float repeatedly by two to build-up the float digits. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4796> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
