PS: Sorry, George Sakkis, for the double emailing... I forgot to add python-list in the To: field the first time. :)
Haha. Ok. Thank you for pointing me to those links :). I hadn't thought of searching for the word 'rational' instead of 'decimal'... >From what I've read, seems that the principal reason for rejecting the PEP is that there was not much need (enthusiasm)... Well, then I have a question: Is there a way to make 5/2 return something other than an integer? I can do: class int(int): def __add__(self, other): pass but that will only work if I do int(5)/int(2)... (setting __builtin__.int=int doesn't work, either) What I'd like is to be able to implement what I put in the proposal, as I don't think it's a really big language change... On 9/30/07, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 30, 9:35 pm, andresj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was doing some programming in Python, and the idea came to my mind: using > > fractions instead of floats when doing 2/5. > > (...) > > I would like to get some feedback on this idea. Has this been posted > > before? If so, was it rejected? and for what? > > Is internet down today ? > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/clnum/1.2 > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0239/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list