On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:22 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> The former ensures that literals in code are always readable; the later >> allows users to enter numbers in their own number system. How could that >> be a bad thing? > > It's YAGNI, feature bloat. It gives the illusion of supporting something > that actually isn't supported very well (namely, parsing local number > strings). I claim that there is no meaningful application > of this feature. >
Speaking of YAGNI, does anyone want to defend >>> complex('١٢٣٤.٥٦j') 1234.56j ? Especially given that we reject complex('1234.56i'): http://bugs.python.org/issue10562 _______________________________________________ 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