Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
Decimal is a good question. Why does floor division not do floor division on Decimal? The documentation says The integer division operator // behaves analogously, returning the integer part of the true quotient (truncating towards zero) rather than its floor, so as to preserve the usual identity x == (x // y) * y + x % y but it's not clear why that identity is more important than floor division returning the floor. I guess we could just document the difference and maybe add a Decimal ceildiv method, although that makes me sad :-( Could we "fix" Decimal? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46639> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com