Message78793
Raymond:
> Accordingly, I recommend Decimal.from_float(f) with no
> qualifiers or optional arguments.
-0 on this one. It's going to confuse an awful lot of newbies when
they write Decimal.from_float(1.1) and get
Decimal('110000000000000008881784197001252...e-51').
Also, why not just extend the Decimal() constructor to accept a float
as the argument? Why have a separate from_float() method at all?
> To support the use case of wanting to round the input, I
> suggest a separate method modeled on Context.create_decimal().
+1 on this. |
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2009-01-02 13:18:09 | steven.daprano | set | recipients:
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2009-01-02 13:18:09 | steven.daprano | set | messageid: <1230902289.3.0.400550805188.issue4796@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2009-01-02 13:18:08 | steven.daprano | link | issue4796 messages |
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