[Guido] >> The ints aren't really embedded in Decimal, so we don't have to do >> that there (but we could).
[Facundo Batista] > -0. > > If we can't achieve it without disturbing the rest of Python, I'll try > as much as possible to keep what the Spec proposes. Which "Spec"? For example, floor division isn't mentioned at all in IBM's proposed decimal standard, or in PEP 327, or in the Python Library Reference section on `decimal`. It's an artifact of trying to extend Python's integer mod definition to floats, and for reasons explained in this thread (for the 27th time ;-)), that definition doesn't make good sense for floats. The IBM spec defines `remainder` and `remainder-near` for floats, and those do make good sense for floats. But they're /different/ definitions than Python uses for integer mod. Do note that this discussion is only about Python 3. Under the view that it was a (minor, but real) design error to /try/ extending Python's integer mod definition to floats, if __mod__, and __divmod__ and __floordiv__ go away for binary floats in P3K they should certainly go away for decimal floats in P3K too. And that's about syntax, not functionality: the IBM spec's "remainder" and "remainder-near" still need to be there, it's "just" that a user would have to get at "remainder" in a more long-winded way (analogous to that a P3K user would have to spell out "math.fmod" to get at a mod function for binary floats). _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com