Stefan Krah <[email protected]> added the comment:
STINNER Victor <[email protected]> wrote:
> decimal.Decimal.__truediv__() has an optional context argument, whereas
> _decimal defines PyNumberMethods.
Regarding the special methods: decimal.py uses the optional context arguments
for convenience so that these methods can be re-used in other places.
I wouldn't consider this context argument as part of the API.
> decimal.Decimal.quantize() second argument is optional and its default value
> is None, but if I pass None to _decimal.Decimal.quantize(), I get a TypeError
> because _decimal expects an integer.
About this I'm not sure. I think type errors are a courtesy to the user.
Look what is possible now in decimal.py:
Decimal('9')
But here the argument might well be made for accepting None (and only
None apart from rounding modes). - I hope Mark and Raymond will give
their opinions, too.
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