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Author	rhettinger
Recipients	facundobatista, gvanrossum, jyasskin, mark.dickinson, rhettinger
Date	2008-02-02.21:17:20
SpamBayes Score	0.48308972
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Message-id	<1201987042.43.0.205292995935.issue1682@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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The rational constructor should accept decimals directly. Rational(Decimal('3.1')) does not suffer the same representation error problems as Rational(float('3.1')). The conversion from decimal is lossless and does not depend on the decimal context. There is no need for a separate constructor.

The rational constructor should accept decimals directly.

Rational(Decimal('3.1')) does not suffer the same representation error 
problems as Rational(float('3.1')).  The conversion from decimal is 
lossless and does not depend on the decimal context.  There is no need 
for a separate constructor.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2008-02-02 21:17:22	rhettinger	set	spambayes_score: 0.48309 -> 0.48308972 recipients: + rhettinger, gvanrossum, facundobatista, mark.dickinson, jyasskin
2008-02-02 21:17:22	rhettinger	set	spambayes_score: 0.48309 -> 0.48309 messageid: <1201987042.43.0.205292995935.issue1682@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-02-02 21:17:21	rhettinger	link	issue1682 messages
2008-02-02 21:17:20	rhettinger	create