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Author	mark.dickinson
Recipients	christian.heimes, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, poelzi
Date	2007-12-08.00:46:02
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Message-id	<1197074763.07.0.19725680361.issue1562@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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It's not clear to me that this would be the right behaviour. Unless I'm missing something, Decimal behaves in just the same way as types like int, float and str in this respect: >>> class myint(int): pass ... >>> a = myint(2) >>> b = myint(3) >>> a+b 5 >>> type(_) <type 'int'> Tim Peters had something to say on this subject at: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-January/300791.html

It's not clear to me that this would be the right behaviour.  Unless I'm 
missing something, Decimal behaves in just the same way as types like 
int, float and str in this respect:

>>> class myint(int): pass
... 
>>> a = myint(2)
>>> b = myint(3)
>>> a+b
5
>>> type(_)
<type 'int'>

Tim Peters had something to say on this subject at:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-January/300791.html

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2007-12-08 00:46:03	mark.dickinson	set	spambayes_score: 0.0194107 -> 0.019410722 recipients: + mark.dickinson, facundobatista, christian.heimes, poelzi
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