Hi There,

Settable defaulting to decimal instead of float

It would be good to be able to use decimal automatically instead of float if there is a setting. For example an environment variable or a flag file.

Where and when accuracy is more important than speed, the user could set this flag, and calculate with decimal numbers as learned in the school.

I think several people would use this function

Best regards,
George

This issue (and your other issue29223) would probably be a better for the python-ideas mailing list rather than the bug tracker.

See the FAQ in the Developer Guide for Python https://docs.python.org/devguide/faq.html#suggesting-changes

Both issues should probably be closed.

You are not the first one to propose the idea.

2012: "make decimal the default non-integer instead of float?"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2012-September/016250.html

2014: "Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-March/026436.html


Related discussions:

2008: "Decimal literal?"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2008-December/002379.html

2015: "Python Float Update"
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-June/033787.html

PEP 240 "Adding a Rational Literal to Python".

> This issue (and your other issue29223) ...

I guess that you mean issue #29224 "OS related file operations (copy, move, delete, rename...) should be placed into one module".

Jim is right, I close the bug. The *bug* tracker is not the best place to propose ideas: please use the python-ideas mailing list ;-)