New submission from Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com>:
When the Fractions module was first added to Python, it was decided that
when constructing from a string, decimal strings should be allowed, but
not those including an exponent. For example, Fraction('1.1') is
currently valid, but Fraction('1.1e6') is not.
I think exponents should be permitted, for a couple of reasons:
(1) consistency: there's a clearly-defined notion of a numeric string
of the form ([sign] integer_part [fractional_part] [exponent]); the
float and Decimal constructors both accept all numeric strings.
Fraction currently accepts some, but not all of these.
(2) Easy interactions with floats: with this addition, a Fraction can
always be constructed from the str() or repr() of a finite float or
finite Decimal; without it, only some of those strings can be converted.
(3) Ease of parsing files containing numeric strings.
(4) It's a very simple change! See attached patch.
Jeffrey, any thoughts?
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assignee: marketdickinson
components: Library (Lib)
files: fraction_from_exp.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 86283
nosy: jyasskin, marketdickinson
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Fraction('1e6') should be valid.
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13735/fraction_from_exp.patch
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