On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:00:10 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > If we had some other tag, like 'd', we could actually construct a > Decimal straight from the source code. Since source code is a string, > it'll be constructed from that string, and it'll never go via float.
Now that Python has a fast C implementation of Decimal, I would be happy for Python 4000 to default to decimal floats, and require special syntax for binary floats. Say, 0.1b if you want a binary float, and 0.1 for a decimal. But for now, backwards-compatibility requires that the default floating point type remains binary float. But we could maybe agitate for a 1.234d Decimal literal type. Care to write a PEP? :-) > The question is how far Python wants to bless the Decimal type with > syntax - after all, if Decimal can get a literal notation, why can't > Fraction, and why can't all sorts of other types? And that's a huge can > of worms. I like Fractions, but I don't think they're important enough for the average users to require literal notation. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
