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Settable defaulting to decimal instead of float #73409
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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, |
This issue (and your other bpo-29223) 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?" 2014: "Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System" Related discussions: 2008: "Decimal literal?" 2015: "Python Float Update" PEP-240 "Adding a Rational Literal to Python". |
I guess that you mean issue bpo-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 ;-) |
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