On Fri, May 29, 2015, at 13:08, Chris Angelico wrote: > Also, I like talking about Fraction and > Decimal for the simple reason that they're unobvious; you can poke > around with Python and discover int and float, and if ever you need > imaginary/complex numbers, you'll quickly come across complex, but you > might use Python for years and not realize that decimal.Decimal even > exists - nor when you'd want it.
Well, isn't that just a byproduct of what problem space you work in? If someone _does_ know they need a rational or decimal type (e.g. someone working with money who's clueful enough to know floats won't do), they'll find these types relatively quickly from a google search - there's no glut of third-party implementations, and neither is so obscure nor easily written from scratch that people wouldn't search for an existing implementation. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
