Mark Dickinson added the comment: > So, I'd really like to deprecate the whole interface in favor of either a > read-only interface: > > x.sign -> 0 or 1 (perhaps even 1 or -1) > x.coeff -> Python integer > x.exp -> Python integer > > If x is special, raise InvalidOperation. People usually need to check for > specials anyhow.
Sure; that works for me. I don't like the current interface any more than you do, and I've always found it unnecessarily awkward to turn finite decimals into triples and back again. But I think that's a different issue. What we have here is a real regression that seems likely to break existing code, and I think that should be fixed. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15882> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
