George requested this feature on the bug tracker: http://bugs.python.org/issue29223
George was asked to start a discusson on this list. I posted the following comment before closing the issue: You are not the first one to propose the idea. 2012: "make decimal the default non-integer instead of float?" https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2012-September/016250.html 2014: "Python Numbers as Human Concept Decimal System" https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2014-March/026436.html Related discussions: 2008: "Decimal literal?" https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2008-December/002379.html 2015: "Python Float Update" https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-June/033787.html PEP 240 "Adding a Rational Literal to Python". Victor _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
