Mark Dickinson added the comment:
Thanks for the report. I'm going to close here, since this isn't a bug.
If you want to advocate for a behaviour change, by all means go ahead, but be
aware that it would likely be a hard sell. The main challenge would be finding
a way to change the behaviour
Mark Dickinson added the comment:
The behaviour is deliberate, if unfortunate: it's covered in the documentation
here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html#decimal-objects - see the
paragraph starting
> There are some small differences between arithmetic on Decimal objects
> and ar
New submission from Jens :
from decimal import Decimal
print(-0.9//0.123)
# prints -8.0
print(Decimal('-0.9')//Decimal('0.123'))
# prints -7
print(-10//4.2)
# prints -3.0
print(Decimal('-10')//Decimal('4.2'))
# prints -2
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messages: 385113
nosy: multiks2200
priority: normal
severity:
