On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Dave Angel <d...@davea.name> wrote: > import decimal > a = decimal.Decimal(4.3) > print(a) > > 5.0999999999999996447286321199499070644378662109375
Ah, the delights of copy-paste :) > The Decimal class has the disadvantage that it's tons slower on any modern > machine I know of... Isn't it true, though, that Python 3.3 has a completely new implementation of decimal that largely removes this disadvantage? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
