Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Alexander Belopolsky pointed out another nice aspect of this change: after the change, let 'numerictype' be any of int, float, complex, Decimal or Fraction, and let 'x' be an instance of numerictype. Then
numerictype(str(x)) recovers x exactly. See also additional discussion at: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102515.html The consensus (so far) seems to be in favour of this change. I'll leave it a few more days in case people haven't seen the python-dev thread yet, and then assuming that there's no dissent I'll commit. ---------- stage: needs patch -> commit review _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9337> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
