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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	marco_ocram, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, ronaldoussoren, steven.daprano, stutzbach, tim.peters, veky
Date	2020-08-26.05:02:27
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Message-id	<1598418147.93.0.108651591623.issue41598@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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Like Mark, I'm not convinced this is a good idea. Outside of finance calculations which typically already use decimal, the need for it is somewhat rare. Also, the API doesn't fit neatly with existing the __round__ dunder methods, so the new feature couldn't be made to work with existing classes. If you want to pursue this, I recommend taking it to python-ideas.

Like Mark, I'm not convinced this is a good idea.  

Outside of finance calculations which typically already use decimal, the need for it is somewhat rare.  Also, the API doesn't fit neatly with existing the __round__ dunder methods, so the new feature couldn't be made to work with existing classes.

If you want to pursue this, I recommend taking it to python-ideas.

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