One other thought. The Decimal constructor should now accept floats as a possible input type. Formerly, we separated that out to Decimal.from_float() because decimals weren't interoperable with floats.
This will put decimal and float back on equal footing so that we have both: float(some_decimal) # coerce to binary float and Decimal(some_float) # coerce to decimal float That will also save us from odd idioms like: d = some_float + Decimal(0) # coerce to decimal then apply context rounding This also matches the behavior of other constructors: int(some_float) or int(some_decimal) or str(some_float) or str(some_decimal) Raymond _______________________________________________ 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